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‘Abd al-Bāqī ibn Yaḥyā
12th Century
Nothing is known about ‘Abd al-Bāqī ibn Yaḥyā, except that he lived in Malīj, in the Nile Delta province of al-Garbiyya, where he worked for a time as a tax collector.
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Petition to Saladin with a Reply
Nasih al-Din Ishaq. The slave ‘Abd al-Bāqī ibn Yaḥyā, the Jew, who resides in Malīj. In the name of God, the merciful and compassionate. May God, the exalted, make eternal the rule of the exalted and…