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Mūsā b. Isḥāq al-Safāqusī

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Gender
Male
Social roles
  • Jewish community member
  • Merchant

Description / Bio

Part of the Nahray trading group. Active in Safāqus and al-Mahdiyya; moved to Mazara, Sicily, where he bought a house and settled down (Goitein, Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders, pp. 138–39).

Marina Rustow, "Mūsā b. Isḥāq al-Safāqusī," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/musa-b-ishaq-al-safaqusi/, accessed August 25, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/musa-b-ishaq-al-safaqusi/