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alusur-8556	Weitz, Lev	The Long Arm of the Provincial Law: A Custody Battle in a Qāḍī Petition from the Medieval Fayyūm	2022-04-08	32	.pdf	application/pdf	16487	1016	67	It appears more certain that Ṭalīt’s majlis al-ḥukm was a local center of judicial activity and that, whatever the title of its chief authority, Ṭuṭūn-related matters fell under its purview. The Long Arm of the Provincial Law • 59 the Christian character of Ṭuṭūn gives one to suspect that Ṭalīt’s majlis al-ḥukm served as the local center of Islamic legal services for its neighboring village.31 We can thus imagine that Ṭuṭūnites would have made the short four-kilometer walk to Ṭalīt to get their legal documents drawn up and registered, and there encountered the Banū Rizq and other locals who served the court.32 No doubt more members of this family will turn up as more documents are published and studied.33 Overall, the Banū Rizq’s literacy and connections to their local court suggest that they constituted part of the Muslim civilian elite of the southern Fayyūm.	cache/alusur-8556.pdf	txt/alusur-8556.txt