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Yosef b. ʿIwāḍ

بيانات التعريف

Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
1214–1215 CE
Social role
  • Jewish community member

Description / Bio

His father might be the India trader Abu ʾl-Ḥasan ʿIwāḍ, known from Maimonides, Responsa, 1:99–102, no. 62. (Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Traders, 543 n. 3)

Select bibliography

  1. S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India Book 2: Madmun, nagid of Yemen, and the India trade: Cairo Geniza documents‎ (in Hebrew) (Ben-Zvi Institute, 2010).
  2. 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, "Yosef b. ʿIwāḍ," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/yosef-b-iwad/, accessed June 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/yosef-b-iwad/