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Abū ʿAbdallāh Ibn Abī l-Katāʾib Male 1131–1146 CE Merchant +1 Son of the Muslim ship-owner and nākhudā Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn Abī l-Katāʾib. He primarily traveled …
Abū ʿAlī b. Abū ʿUmar Male 1167 CE Jewish community member +1 An India trader assisted at least once by Ḥalfon b. Maḍmūn. Abū ʿAlī referred to …
Abū ʿAlī b. Ṭayyib al-Miṣrī Male 1136–1140 CE Merchant Merchant who traveled between Aden and India. On one occasion, he carried copper vessels from …
(Abū ʿImrān) Moshe b. Shemuʾel Ben Yijū Male Jewish community member The eldest son of Shemuʾel b. Yosef Ben Yijū.
Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī Male 1100–1140 CE Merchant A merchant known to Yosef b. Avraham, who (while commissioning a copper vessel from Ibn …
Abū l-Faraj b. Moshe al-Baghdādī Male 1136–1139 CE Merchant A young merchant who had perhaps absconded to Ceylon after arriving in the Malabar region …
Abū l-Ḥasan al-Maḥallī Male Merchant
(Abū l-Ḥasan) ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar Male Merchant Merchant who traveled on at least one occasion to the Malabar coast (Fandarayna) and conveyed …
Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn Abī l-Katāʾib Male 1133–1140 CE Merchant +1 Muslim ship-owner and nākhudā in the Indian Ocean trade in the 12th century.
Abu ʾl-Khayr b. al-Minqār Male 1135 CE Jewish community member +1 Avraham Ibn Yijū's cousin, the son of his maternal aunt. From Goitein and Friedman: "This …
Abū l-Surūr b. Khallūf al-Ṭalḥī Male 1136–1140 CE Merchant Indian Ocean trader known to Yosef b. Avraham who went on at least one occasion …
Aḥmad b. Abū l-Faraj Male 1137–1140 CE Other Shipowner or ship's captain (rubbān).
al-Muhadhdhab Male 5 April 1234 CE Jewish community member A son of Shemuʾel b. Yosef Ben Yijū, though it is unclear whether this is …
Aśu Female 17 October 1132–1147 CE Enslaved person +2 Tuḷuva woman (i.e., native of Tulunad, the region around Mangaluru). Avraham Ben Yijū bought her …
Avraham b. Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundār Male 1127–31 October 1152 CE Jewish community member Eldest son of Yūsuf b. Avraham, the Indian Ocean trader. Mentioned in a letter where …
Avraham Ben Yijū Male 1131–1156 CE Jewish community member +1 Avraham Ben Yijū or Ibn Yijū (fl. 1132–49) was an Indian Ocean trader who left …
Bakhtiyār Male 1100–1138 CE Enslaved person Enslaved man (ghulām) who is mentioned in a letter that was sent by Khalaf b. …
Bama Male 1130–17 June 1153 CE Enslaved person Hindī slave and factotum of Avraham ben Yiju. The subject of Amitav Ghosh's book In …
Berakha bt. Peraḥyā Ben Yiju Female 1152–1169 CE Jewish community member Member of the well-known Ben Yijū family and sister of, among others, Avraham Ben Yijū. …
Bilāl b. Jarīr al-Awḥadī Male 1130–1149 CE Merchant +2 The most prominent Muslim merchant in Aden, and later a general and ruler of Aden. …
Bundār b. Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan Male 1140–1150 CE Jewish community member +1
Ḍāfir Male Merchant Rare name. This Ḍāfir had an enslaved agent named Jawhar
Ḍāfir b. Faraj Male 1136–1139 CE Merchant Ḍāfir is a rare name. This trader traveled on at least one occasion from Aden …
Daughter 2 of Yosef ha-Kohen al-Sijilmāsī Female 11 September 1149 CE Jewish community member
Daughter of Nissīm b. Peraḥyā Ben Yijū Female Jewish community member The daughter (name unknown) of Nissīm b. Peraḥyā Ben Yijū. She married her paternal cousin, …
Daughter of Ḥananel b. Shemuʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī Female Jewish community member
Daughter of Shemuʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī Female
Elʿazar b. Shemuʾel Ben Yijū Male 1152–1176 CE Jewish community member A younger son of Shemuʾel b. Yosef Ben Yijū.
Fatan Swamī Male State official Not a proper name but a title. Paṭṭanasvāmi ('lord of the mart') referring to the …
Fidyār Male 1136–1139 CE Shipowner (nākhudā) active in the Indian Ocean in the first half of the 12th century.
Ibn ʿAdlān Male Merchant Merchant who traveled on at least one occasion on the Malabar coast. Maḍmūn sent him …
Ibn al-Muqaddam Male 1133–1152 CE Other Shipowner on the Indian Ocean route not identified as nākhudā. His ships sailed the Aden/Zabīd-Malabar …
Kārdār (title) Male 1137–1140 CE Other Title (translated "manager") is of Persian origin but holder's proper name is unknown. Ibn Yijū …
Khalaf b. Bundār Male 1120–1156 CE Jewish community member Merchant based in Aden. Nephew of Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan b. Bundār. Ibn Yijū betrothed his …
Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq b. Bundār Male 1120–1152 CE Jewish community member +1 Indian Ocean trader based in Aden. Cousin of Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan b. Bundār and of …
Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan b. Bundār Male 1130–1150 CE Jewish communal official +2 Representative of the merchants in Aden. Appointed Nagid ca. 1140 (IB II,40). Died 1151
Maʿmar Male Jewish community member Husband of Avraham's sister Yumn. Died ca. 1149.
Marwān b. Zikrī b. Biḥār Male 1149–1152 CE Jewish community member
Masʿūd (Captain) al-Ḥabshī Male Other Captain (rubbān) of Abyssinian origin (al-Ḥabshī) who traveled between Aden and the Malabar coast
Menaḥēm b. Yosef (II) Ben Yijū Male Jewish community member Apparently, a great-grandson of Avraham Ben Yijū. Goitein and Friedman source his existence to T-S …
(Abū l-Bishr) Mevassēr Ben Yijū Male 1145–1153 CE Jewish community member A brother of the India trader Avraham Ben Yijū. Like their brother Yosef, Mevassēr received …
Moshe b. Peraḥyā Ben Yiju Male 4 September 1225–26 February 1235 CE Jewish communal official +1 "Moses b. Peraḥyā served as judge [muqaddam] in the Egyptian provincial towns of Minyat Ziftā …
Moshe b. Yosef ben Yijū Male 29 June 1155 CE Jewish community member A nephew of Avraham Ben Yijū, part of the Sicilian branch of the family. Died …
Moshe (II) b. Peraḥyā (II) Ben Yiju Male Jewish community member A son of the scholar Peraḥyā (II) b. Yosef (II) Ben Yijū. He sent regards …
Muḥammad (nākhudā) Male Other Nākhudā of the ship of Fidyār
Muwaffaq al-ʿAshāʾirī Male 1136–1139 CE Muslim judicial official Merchant who traveled on at least one occasion from Aden to the Malabar coast
Natan Male 1141 CE Jewish community member Grandfather of Avraham b. Peraḥyā Ibn Yijū. Known only from a patronymic in one of …
Nāyar Male Other Brother of the enslaved Tuḷuva woman Aśu, the wife of Avraham Ibn Yijū. Ibn Yijū …
Nbyrwy Male 1136–1139 CE Other Shipowner whose ship plied the route between Aden and the Malabar coast
Nissīm b. Peraḥyā Ben Yijū Male 1239 CE Jewish community member A son of Sitt al-Dār bt. Avraham Ben Yijū and the judge Peraḥyā b. Yosef …
(Abu ʾl-Surūr) Peraḥya b. Avraham Ben Yijū Male 1130–11 September 1149 CE Jewish community member Beloved, eldest son of the freedwoman Ashū and the Indian Ocean trader Avraham Ben Yijū. …
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