Creator Bio
Solomon ha-Sijilmāsī
12th Century
Solomon ben Joseph ha-Sijilmāsī was a Jewish merchant active in Fustāt (Old Cairo), whose family may have hailed from Sijilmāsa, in southern Morocco.
Content by Solomon ha-Sijilmāsī
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Letter to His Father, Joseph
Solomon writes to his father, who had been in India, describing the conquest of the Maghreb in 1145 by ‘Abd al-Mu’min and the Almohads.
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Challenges to the Jewish Community in the Early Medieval World
7th to 12th Century
As a minority population, Jews in both Christian and Islamic lands faced periods of persecution.