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(Abū ʿImrān) Moshe b. Elḥanan

بيانات التعريف

Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
9 إبريل 1087–1097 CE
Social role
  • Jewish communal official
Other name
Abū ʿImrān b. Elḥanan

Description / Bio

Head of a congregation in Cairo; Avraham b. Natan once asked Nahray b. Nissim to secure his excommunication. Moshe traveled on at least one occasion to Yemen. He was possibly the son of Elḥanan b. Ismāʿīl al-Andalusī. (Information from Goitein and Friedman, India Traders, 292 n. 5(e).

Select bibliography

  1. S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India traders of the middle ages : documents from the Cairo Geniza : India book (Brill, 2008), vol. 1.
Sasha Batz Stern, Alan Elbaum, and Pratima Gopalakrishnan, "(Abū ʿImrān) Moshe b. Elḥanan," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/moshe-b-elhanan/, accessed March 10, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/moshe-b-elhanan/