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The 10th-century Bible exegete, [[Saadia Gaon]], thought ''el-Fayyum'' to have actually been the biblical city of [[Pithom]], mentioned in Exodus 1:11.[Saadia Gaon, ''Tafsir'' (Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch), Exodus 1:11; ''Rabbi Saadia Gaon's Commentaries on the Torah'' (ed. [[Yosef Qafih]]), [[Mossad Harav Kook]]: Jerusalem 1984, p. 63 (Exodus 1:11) (Hebrew)] |
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The 10th-century Bible exegete, [[Saadia Gaon]], thought ''el-Fayyum'' to have actually been the biblical city of [[Pithom]], mentioned in Exodus 1:11.[Saadia Gaon, ''Tafsir'' (Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch), Exodus 1:11; ''Rabbi Saadia Gaon's Commentaries on the Torah'' (ed. [[Yosef Qafih]]), [[Mossad Harav Kook]]: Jerusalem 1984, p. 63 (Exodus 1:11) (Hebrew)] |
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Around 1245 BC, the region became the subject of the most detailed government survey to survive from the medieval Arab world, conducted by [[Abū ‘Amr ‘Uthman Ibn al-Nābulusī]].[''The 'Villages of the Fayyum': A Thirteenth-Century Register of Rural, Islamic Egypt'', ed. and trans. by Yossef Rapoport and Ido Shahar, The Medieval Countryside, 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), p. 3.] |
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Around 1245 AD, the region became the subject of the most detailed government survey to survive from the medieval Arab world, conducted by [[Abū ‘Amr ‘Uthman Ibn al-Nābulusī]].[''The 'Villages of the Fayyum': A Thirteenth-Century Register of Rural, Islamic Egypt'', ed. and trans. by Yossef Rapoport and Ido Shahar, The Medieval Countryside, 18 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), p. 3.] |
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