ALGERIA, DATED THE BEGINNING OF RAJAB AH 1232/MAY 1817 AD

This document records the donation of money for charitable purposes in Medina collected by various notables in the Great Mosque of Algiers. It records the purposes along with the sums of money, starting with the largest amounts. The largest amounts, appearing at the top, are intended for the Sheikhs and the Aghas (eunuch caretakers) of the Mosque of the Prophet. The Aghas keep the keys to the Holy Site and to the Prophet's minbar and there were about 150 of them in Medina by the time this scroll was copied (George Junne, Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire, Networks of Power in the Court of the Sultan, London, 2016, no page number).