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Letter from Abū Saʿīd b. Abū l-Ḥasan al-Abzārī, in the Maghreb, to his brother Abū l-Barakāt, in Fustat. Dating: ca. 1098 CE. The writer traveled from Fustat for trading and arrived in Bijāya as intended. The Christian ship he traveled with encountered a Muslim fleet that captured Jerba. He describes the naval battle between Christians and Muslims. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, Vol. 4, #831.) VMR. Join: Oded Zinger.

Ed. Moshe Gil, In the Kingdom of Ishmael‎ (in Hebrew) (1997), vol. 4.

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Letter from Spain to Egypt about a war in the Mediterranean (spring, 1137). Naval battle between Muslims and Christians. Written on late Nisan 1448 sel., which is mid-April 1137.

Ed. S. D. Goitein, "Glimpses from the Cairo Geniza on Naval Warfare in the Mediterranean and on the Mongol Invasion," in Studi Orientalistici in onore di Giorgio Levi Della Vida (1956), vol. 1. With corrections from his personal offprint.

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