Daughter of Joseph of Baghdad
The Daughter of Joseph of Baghdad (early 12th-century) was a Jewish mystic active in Baghdad in c.1121. She was the daughter of "Joseph, the son of the physician". The only source of information about her comes from a letter, written for a recipient living in the Egyptian city of Fustat soon after the events it describes. The story of the daughter was written on the back of a deed. The letter rel
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The Daughter of Joseph of Baghdad (early 12th-century) was a Jewish mystic active in Baghdad in c.1121. She was the daughter of "Joseph, the son of the physician". The only source of information about her comes from a letter, written for a recipient living in the Egyptian city of Fustat soon after the events it describes. The story of the daughter was written on the back of a deed. The letter relates that when Al-Mustarshid (r. 1118–1135), the Abbasid caliph, imposed laws on the Jews instructing...
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