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Futūḥ

Metadata

Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
13 March 1214 CE
Posthumous mentions
1214–1215 CE
Social role
  • Jewish community member
Other names
Petaḥya
פתחיה

Description / Bio

An India trader who died on a ship on the India route (PGPID 5405). Possibly identified with the deceased merchant Petaḥya (PGPID 5480). 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.
Sasha Batz Stern and Pratima Gopalakrishnan, "Futūḥ," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/futuh/, accessed June 10, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/futuh/