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Name Gender Dates Social role Description / Bio Number of related documents Number of related people Number of related places
Fakhr al-Dawla Male 1190 CE State official Ayyubid state official with some connection to Abraham Maimonides. There are at least 12 documents …
Faraḥ b. Yūsuf b. Faraḥ al-Qābisī Male May 1069 CE Jewish community member
Fāris al-Dawla Male 3 February, 1199 CE State official The amīr Fāris al-Dawla was active in the 6th/12th century during the period of al-Fāʾiz.
Farjūn Male Jewish community member The most popular man in the geniza. ;-)
Ghālib b. Moshe ha-Kohen Male 1029 – 9 September, 1057 CE Jewish community member
Ḥalfon b. Menashshe Male 1124 CE Jewish communal official
Ḥalfon ha-Levi b. Netanʾel Male 1138 – 1140 CE Jewish communal official India trader [placeholder]
Ḥamīd al-Dawla Male State official Fatimid state official, 11th/12th C.
Ḥananya b. Yosef ha-Kohen, Av Bet Din Male 14 September, 1007 CE Jewish communal official Active first decades of the eleventh century (legal document from his court precisely dated to …
Hayye bar Sherira Male Jewish communal official Gaʾon of the yeshiva of Pumbedita in Baghdad 998–1038. Born in 939. Author of numerous …
Ḥayyim b. 'Ammār al-Madīnī Male 18 August, 1056 – 2 February, 1063 CE Jewish community member
Ḥesed b. Yashar al-Tustarī Male Jewish community member
Hiba b. Ghālib ha-Kohen Male 10 November, 1004 CE Jewish community member
Hilāl al-Dawla Male 1123 CE State official Fatimid state official, served under the administration of al-Āmir. He was sent as a diplomatic …
Hilāl b. Salmān(?) Male
Hilāl b. Yūsuf Ibn ʿAwkal Male 3 November, 1008 – 6 September, 1016 CE Jewish community member
Hillel b. ʿEli Male 22 July, 1098 – 18 September, 1107 CE Jewish communal official
Hillel b. Saʿadya ha-Kohen Male Jewish community member
Ḥiyyā b. Yiṣḥaq Male 28 August, 1129 – 1211 CE Jewish communal official The head judge in Fusṭāṭ in the middle of the twelfth century. Active from 1129 …
Ḥusām al-Dawla Male 1036 – 1094 CE State official Fatimid state official, served under the administration of al-Mustanṣir.
Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ Male 1055 – 1091 CE Other Ibn al-Baʿbāʿ was a Palermitan shipowner and merchant who had business ties with the Geniza …
Ibn al-Munajjā Male 1040 – 1050 CE State official
Ibn al-Thumna Male Other Ibn al-Thumna was a qāʾid of Sicily in the mid-eleventh century. His base of operations …
Ibrahim b. Abī l-Ḥayy Khalīla Male Jewish community member
Ibrāhīm b. Farrāḥ Male 25 August, 1056 CE Jewish community member
Ibrahim b. Simḥūn Male Jewish community member
Iftikhār al-Dawla Mubārak al-Afḍalī al-Juyūshī Male 1130 CE State official Fatimid state official, active around the 6th/12th C.
ʿImmanuel b. Yeḥiʾel Male 1231 – 1279 CE Jewish communal official
Isḥāq b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī Male Jewish community member
Ismāʿīl b. Barhūn al-Tāhartī Male Jewish community member
Ismaʿīl b. Faraḥ Male Jewish community member
Ismaʿīl b. Yosef b. Abī ʿUqba Male Jewish community member
Karīma bt. ʿAmram (Wuḥsha al-Dallāla) Female 19 April, 1098 – 1140 CE Jewish community member Karima bt. ʿAmram/ʿAmmār is more commonly known by her nickname Wuḥsha al-Dallāla. She was a …
Khalaf b. ʿAzrūn Male
Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq Male August 1147 CE Jewish community member
Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Sughmār Male August 1056 CE Jewish community member
Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan Male Jewish communal official Representative of the merchants in Aden
Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov Male 1145 – 1148 CE Jewish community member Nākhudā (shipowner) traveling between Aden and India
Makhlūf b. Mūsā Ibn al-Yatīm Male 28 October, 1103 – 5 August, 1141 CE Jewish community member Trader of the late eleventh and early twelfth century. An import-export merchant, he traveled between …
Makhlūf Neʾeman ha-Yeshiva Male Jewish community member
Makīn al-Dawla Male State official The amīr Thiqat al-Mulk Makīn al-Dawla was a state official during the period of the …
Mardūkh b. Mūsā Male 1040 – 1096 CE Jewish community member
Maṣliaḥ b. Eliyyahu Male 18 August, 1056 CE Jewish communal official Judge of Palermo in the mid-eleventh century.
Maṣliaḥ b. Shelomo Male Jewish communal official Gaʾon of the Palestinian yeshiva in Cairo 1127–39.
Maymūn b. Khalfa al-Qābisī Male 18 August, 1056 – 5 July, 1072 CE Jewish community member
Menashshe b. Yūsuf Ibn ʿAwkal Male Jewish community member
Mevasser b. Yijū Male 1152 – 1153 CE Jewish community member
Moses al-Ghadāmasī Male Jewish community member
Moshe b. Abudarham Male Jewish community member
Moshe b. Hillel ha-Kohen Male Jewish community member
Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi Male 1190 – 1212 CE
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