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Nāyar

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Brother of the enslaved Tuḷuva woman Aśu, the wife of Avraham Ibn Yijū. Ibn Yijū calls him Nāyar (ניאר) in T-S 20.137 (PGPID 5537) and refers to him as his brother-in-law. A Nāyar is also a name for a member of the military and ruling clans of medieval Malabar. Goitein and Friedman speculate that this could be the same person as the Abū ʿAlī mentioned in T-S 10K20.1 line 2 and in T-S K6.149 as a brother-in-law of Ben Yijū (India Traders, 639n17).

Pratima Gopalakrishnan and Marina Rustow, "Nāyar," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/nayar/, accessed March 10, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/nayar/