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Abū Saʿd b. Rashīd

بيانات التعريف

Gender
Male
Dates
Posthumous mentions
1100 CE
Social role
  • Jewish community member

Description / Bio

India trader. Invested 75 mithqāls (= 300 Malikī dinars) in a partnership with Abū Zikrī b. al-Shāmī b. Sar Shālōm. Probably died on a voyage east of Aden. Left behind two orphan girls in Fustat.

Select bibliography

  1. S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India traders of the middle ages : documents from the Cairo Geniza : India book (Brill, 2008), vol. 1.
Pratima Gopalakrishnan, "Abū Saʿd b. Rashīd," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/abu-sad-b-rashid/, accessed June 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/abu-sad-b-rashid/