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Name Gender Dates Social role Description / Bio Tags Number of related documents Number of related people Number of related places
Bundār b. Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan Male 1140–1150 CE Jewish community member +1
Ḍāfir b. Burayk Male 1134–1135 CE Jewish community member
Daughter 1 of Yosef ha-Kohen al-Sijilmāsī Female 1136–1150 CE Jewish community member
Daughter 2 of Yosef ha-Kohen al-Sijilmāsī Female 11 September 1149 CE Jewish community member
Daughter of Bundār b. al-Ḥasan Female 1134–1135 CE Jewish community member Daughter of Bundār (I) b. al-Ḥasan. Married to Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq. Mother-in-law of Abū Zikrī …
Daughter of Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov Female Jewish community member Died young, c. 1148.
Daughter of Yaʿaqov b. Yiṣḥaq Female 1134–1147 CE Jewish community member
David b. Ḥalfon b. Maḍmūn Male 1180 CE Jewish community member Son of nagid Ḥalfon b. Maḍmūn and father of nagid Maḍmūn (Shemaryā) b. David. Potentially …
Elʿazar b. al-Qaṣabī Male 1127–1140 CE Jewish communal official A rabbi and "venerated judge" (India Book, p 424, n 50).
ʿEli b. Netanʾel ha-Levi Male 1127–1139 CE Jewish community member Prominent judge, mentioned frequently in the correspondence of his brother the merchant Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel …
Futūḥ Male 13 March 1214 CE Jewish community member An India trader who died on a ship on the India route (PGPID 5405). Possibly …
Ḥalfon b. Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan Male 1140–1167 CE Jewish communal official +1 Nagid; shipowner; son of Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan
Ḥalfon b. Menashshe ha-Levi Male 1100–1138 CE Jewish communal official
Ḥalfon b. Netanʾel ha-Levi Male 1128–1146 CE Jewish community member Notable India trader; the subject of India Book vol. IV. [placeholder]
Abu Saʿĩd b. Maḥfūẓ Ibn Jamāhir (12th c) Male 23 November 1131–19 December 1144 CE Jewish community member Nākhudā who traveled to India. On one occasion, he purchased an enslaved woman, impregnated her …
Ḥananel b. Shemuʾel Male 1214–29 June 1234 CE Jewish communal official
Ḥasan b. Bundār Male 1094–1120 CE Jewish community member
Ḥasan 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 …
Hiba b. Abū Saʿd Male Jewish community member
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 …
ʿIwāḍ 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 …
Jawhar al-Muqaddamī Male 1145 CE Enslaved person +2 "He was evidently a slave or freedman of Ibn al-Muqaddam, and perhaps the captain on …
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 …
(Abū l-Khayr) Khiyār b. Yaʿqūb Male 1094–2 August 1100 CE Jewish community member +1
Lūluʾa Female 24 September 1131–11 September 1132 CE Jewish community member
Maḍmūn b. David (Nagid) Male 1175–1237 CE Jewish communal official Maḍmūn b. David is a descendant of the first Maḍmūn — possibly his great-grandson through …
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
Maḍmūn b. Khalaf Male 1131–1159 CE Jewish community member
Maḍmūn b. Yaʿaqov Male 12 July 1202 CE Jewish community member
Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov Male 24 September 1131–1149 CE Jewish community member +1 Nākhudā (shipowner) traveling between Aden and India
Makhlūf b. Mūsā al-Yatīm Male 1100–1140 CE Jewish community member +1 Trader of the late eleventh and early twelfth century. He seems to have been an …
Maṣlīaḥ b. Shelomo ha-Kohen (Gaʾon) Male 1100–1139 CE Jewish communal official Gaʾon of the Palestinian yeshiva in Cairo 1127–39.
Meshullam Male 1094–1097 CE Jewish community member +1 Referred to as "Musallam the Jew".
(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 …
(Abū l-Faḍl) Mevorakh b. Saʿadya (Nagid) Male 1078–1111 CE Jewish communal official Head of the Jews 1078–82 and 1094–1111, bearing the title Nagid from 1094.
Miriam bt. Avraham b. Bundār Female 1163–1164 CE Jewish community member
(Abū ʿImrān) Moshe b. Elḥanan Male 9 April 1087–1097 CE Jewish communal official Head of a congregation in Cairo; Avraham b. Natan once asked Nahray b. Nissim to …
Moshe ha-Kohen b. Mordechai Male 1094–1097 CE Jewish community member
Mubārak b. Sahl al-Isrāʾīlī Male 1110 CE Jewish community member Aden-based merchant (unclear if temporary or permanent) who receives a memorandum concerning Indian goods (written …
Mukhtār b. Yaʿqub Male 1100 CE Jewish community member Based in Aden. Might be from Syria-Palestine; Mukhtār was a common name among Syro-Palestinian Jews. …
(Abū ʿImrān) Mūsā b. Abī l-Ḥayy Khalīla Male 1 June 1054–1097 CE Jewish community member +1 Trader associated with the Nahray b. Nissim group. Probably born in Ifrīqiya, he settled in …
(Abū ʿImrān) Mūsā b. Ṣadaqa Ibn Nufayʿ Male 1123–1127 CE Jewish community member +1
Musallam al-Kaʿkī Male 1130–1139 CE Merchant "[...] described in V,2v, line 7 (written Jan.-Feb. 1134), as a young, inexperienced India trader. …
al-Muwaffaq Male 1175–1237 CE Jewish communal official +1 Addressed by the titles al-Muwaffaq ('the Successful'), al-Amīn (al-Dawla) ('Trustee (of the Government)'), and al-Saʿīd …
Nahrāy b. ʿAllān Male 1130–1147 CE Jewish community member +1 India trader. Contemporary with Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan and Abū Zikrī Kohen. Traveled at least as …
(Abū Yaḥyā) Nahray b. Nissim Male 1040–1096 CE Jewish communal official Abū Yaḥyā Nahray b. Nissim (ca. 1025–98) was a long-distance trader in the second half …
Natan b. Shemuʾel he-Ḥaver Male 1128–1164 CE Jewish communal official Prolific court scribe and judge who was active in Fusṭāṭ ca. 1128–1164 CE. The timing …
Natan Male 1141 CE Jewish community member Grandfather of Avraham b. Peraḥyā Ibn Yijū. Known only from a patronymic in one of …
(Abū l-Mufaḍḍal) Netanʾel b. Yefet Male 24 January 1067–22 April 1098 CE Jewish community member
(Abū Saʿd) Nissim b. Nahray Male 1066–1108 CE Jewish communal official
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