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(Abū ʿAlī) Muḥsin b. Ḥusayn

بيانات التعريف

Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
1015–28 يناير 1039 CE
Social role
  • Jewish communal official
Other names
ابو علي محسن بن حسين
אבו עלי מחסן בן חסין
Muḥsin b. Ḥusayn Peqid ha-Soḥarim
Ibn Ukht Samʿān
Ben Aḥot Shimʿon

Description / Bio

representative of the merchants in Fustat; parnas of the Palestinian Rabbanite community in Fustat; descended from a Rabbanite trading family from the northern Syrian coast (Rustow, Heresy, 225)

Alan Elbaum and Marina Rustow, "(Abū ʿAlī) Muḥsin b. Ḥusayn," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/abu-ali-muhsin-b-husayn/, accessed February 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/abu-ali-muhsin-b-husayn/