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(Abū l-Maʿālī) ʿOvayda b. ʿUlla b. Faraḥ

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Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
5 May 1193–3 June 1193 CE
Social role
  • Jewish communal official
Other names
Abū l-Maʿālī ʿAbdallāh b. al-Shaykh al-Thiqa Abū l-Riḍā b. Faraḥ
Abū l-Maʿālī b. Abū l-Riḍā
Al-Raʾīs al-Ajall al-Awḥad al-Akhaṣṣ Thiqat al-Mulk Sadīd al-Dawla Muʿtamid al-Salāṭīn Fakhr al-Kufāt Jamāl al-Ruʾasāʾ

Description / Bio

Appointed by al-Malik al-Afḍal ʿAlī (the son of Saladin) as the head of all the Jewish communities in Damascus, Salṭ, their environs, and the entirety of Syria (al-Shām) in May/June 1193 CE.

Alan Elbaum, "(Abū l-Maʿālī) ʿOvayda b. ʿUlla b. Faraḥ," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/abu-l-maali-ovayda-b-ulla-b-farah/, accessed February 25, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/abu-l-maali-ovayda-b-ulla-b-farah/