Al Sheik Abu al-Nazr

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The overseer and clerk of the Synagogue at Dammuh, Egypt, and Maimonides' brother-in-law (second half of the 12th c.). His Hebrew name: Isaiah ha-Levi b. Misha'el.

Names

Hebrew: אל שיך אבו אל נצר = ʾL ShYK ʾBW ʾL NṢR 1

Attributes

Male
Floruit: late 12th c.

Temporal Data

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Event Description	Date	Comp./Composition	MS./Manuscript	Ed./Edition
Events mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela1	before c.1170	c.1173	13th C	1907

Sources

1Al Sheik Abu al-Nazr: Marcus N. Adler, ed., The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela (London: Frowde, 1907), 102 [Hebrew with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Liran Yadgar, “Al Sheik Abu al-Nazr” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14113.

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Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML and Hebrew transliteration from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue
Liran Yadgar: abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; and gender assignment, matching, Hebrew collection from Benjamin of Tudela's travelogue

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