Raqqa (Ar-Raqqa)
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Ar-Raqqah, on the Euphrates, is mentioned by medieval Arab geographers as the seat of a Jewish community. Cairo Genizah sources document commercial relations with the Jews of Mesopotamia in the tenth–eleventh centuries.
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Sources & resources
- Encyclopaedia Judaica — 2e éd., Keter/Macmillan
- Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World — Brill
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