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Ḥiyyā b. Yiṣḥaq

Metadata

Gender
Male
Active dates
28 August, 1129 – 1211 CE
Social role
Jewish communal official

Description / Bio

The head judge in Fusṭāṭ in the middle of the twelfth century. Active from 1129 until 1170. Author of several legal compositions. The son of the head judge Yiṣḥaq b. Shemu'el ha-Sepharadi.

Moshe Yagur, "Ḥiyyā b. Yiṣḥaq," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/hiyya-b-yishaq/, accessed November 14, 2024.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/hiyya-b-yishaq/