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(Abū l-Faraj) Nissīm b. Shelomo al-Raqqī Male 1094–1097 CE Jewish community member +1 India trader. This man can be Identified with Abū l-Faraj Nissīm b. (Shelomo) al-Raqqī on …
Nissim b. Yaʿaqov Male 1140 CE Jewish communal official Head of the yeshiva at Qayrawān.
Peraḥya b. Aharon Male 11 January 1151 CE
(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. …
(Abū l-Surūr) Peraḥya b. Binyamin Male 1100–1138 CE Jewish community member "[P]art owner of the Lebdi house and identified as a perfumer (ʿaṭṭār). Perfumers often were …
(Abū l-Surūr) Peraḥya b. Tiqva ha-Levi Ibn al-Amʿaṭ Male 10 October 1155–23 November 1167 CE Jewish community member
Rāmisht Male 23 November 1131–1140 CE Other Nākhudā. Shipowner or ship's captain. Name suggests Persian origin. Sometimes his name is spelled Rāshmit.
Sabaʾ b. Abū Suʿūd (Sultan) Male 14 October 1140–12 November 1140 CE State official The Dāʿī (Fatimid chief propagandist of Yemen) and one of two cousins who fractiously co-ruled …
Saʿīd b. Marḥab Male 25 January 1156–11 January 1187 CE Jewish communal official "Saʿīd b. Marḥab apparently served as the community's rabbi in Aden, since he declares that …
Sar Shalom Ibn al-Shāmī Male 1100 CE Jewish community member He and his son were India traders
Saydān b. Abu ʾl-Fatḥ Male 1134–1135 CE Merchant A passenger of a merchant boat sent by Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan to Mangalore. He perished …
Sayyid al-Kull Hillel al-ʿAṭṭār b. Naḥman Male 17 August 1140–1156 CE Jewish community member
Shemuel (12th-13th c) Male 1214–1215 CE Jewish community member Potentially connected to the India trade, as it is mentioned that he is acquainted with …
Shemuʾel b. Ḥananya (Nagid) Male 1140–1160 CE Jewish communal official Served as Nagid from late 1140 – early 1160 CE. The earliest document attesting to …
Shemuʾel b. Moshe b. Elʿazar Male 25 January 1156–23 February 1156 CE Jewish community member A scribe who habitually accompanied his signature with miniature letters.
Sitt al-Ahl bt. Sayyid al-Kull Female 1156 CE Jewish community member
Sitt Ghazāl bt. Abū ʿUmar Female 1167 CE Jewish community member A Fustat woman who corresponded frequently with her son, Abū l-Maḥāsin b. Abū ʿAlī. This …
Son of Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq Male 1136–1147 CE Jewish community member
Son of Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundār Male 1152 CE Jewish community member
(Abū l-Rabīʿ) Sulaymān b. Yehuda ha-Kohen Male 1137–December 1161 CE Jewish community member
Tamīm Male 1100 CE Jewish community member Possibly the same as Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. He is always mentioned without a family …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 13 (Hindī) Male 1137–1147 CE Enslaved person Enslaved boy from al-Hind mentioned in two copies of the same letter sent by Mahruz …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 22 Male 31 October 1152 CE Enslaved person Enslaved person mentioned in a ca. 1152 CE letter Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundār, probably …
Wife of Abū l-Faraj Nissīm Shelomo al-Raqqī Female 1094–1097 CE Jewish community member
Wife of ʿAmram b. Yosef Female 1094–1097 CE Jewish community member
Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq Male Jewish community member
Yaḥyā b. Avraham Male 1094–1097 CE Jewish community member
Yaḥyā b. Muqbil Male 25 January 1156–1204 CE Jewish community member
Yaḥyā b. Khalīla Male 1094–1097 CE Jewish community member +1 Member of the Tunisian Khalīla family. India trader; traveled at least once to Aden.
(Abū Yaʿqūb) Yequtiʾel b. Moshe Male 1066–1108 CE Jewish community member
(Abu ʾl-Faraj) Yeshūʿā b. Avraham ha-Levi Male 24 September 1131–1147 CE Jewish community member
(Abu ʾl-Faraj) Yeshuʿa b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen Male 1135 CE Jewish community member One of three brothers who brought a suit before the rabbinic court of Aden against …
Yiṣḥaq al-Nafūsī Male 1094–1139 CE Jewish community member +1 Indian Ocean trader. He did not leave any letters himself (i.e., that he wrote or …
Yiṣḥaq b. Aharon al-Sijilmāsī Male 14 October 1140–12 November 1140 CE Jewish community member
Yiṣḥaq b. Bundār Male 1110–1136 CE Jewish community member +1
Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel ha-Sefaradi Male 1066–23 September 1188 CE Jewish communal official Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuʾel ha-Sefaradi was one of two head judges in Fustat from the late …
Yiṣḥaq Male 1136–1139 CE Jewish community member +1
Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundār Male 1110–1152 CE Jewish community member +1 Indian Ocean trader active in Aden c. 1140–55. Cousin of Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan b. Bundār; …
(Abū Yaʿqūb) Yosef b. ʿEzra Male 1135–17 April 1139 CE Jewish community member +1 A merchant noted in the India Book papers as Abraham b. Muʿṭī's traveling companion (rafīq).
Yosef b. Fityān Male October 1154–November 1154 CE Merchant
Yosef b. ʿIwāḍ Male 1214–1215 CE Jewish community member His father might be the India trader Abu ʾl-Ḥasan ʿIwāḍ, known from Maimonides, Responsa, 1:99–102, …
Yosef b. Maḥrūz Male 2 March 1135–1150 CE Jewish community member
Yosef b. Peraḥyā Ben Yijū Male 1136–1153 CE Jewish community member A teacher and cantor; the brother of Avraham Ben Yijū. Apparently, the earnings of a …
Yosef ha-Kohen al-Sijilmāsī Male Jewish community member
Yosef Ibn Migash Male 1138–1141 CE Jewish communal official A great Spanish rabbi; died 1141 CE.
(Abū Yaʿqūb) Yūsuf b. Abū Kathīr Efrayim Ibn Yahboy Male 1094–1097 CE Jewish community member +1 India trader. Traveled to Aden on at least one occasion. Family name is Persian -- …
Yūsuf ibn al-Fītūrī Male 1066–1108 CE Merchant Possibly based in Alexandria; traveled on at least one occasion to Aden.
Yūsuf b. Masʿũd Male 1110 CE Jewish community member +1
Zikrī b. Abu ʾl-Faraj Male 1130–1140 CE Merchant
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