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Name Gender Dates Social role Description / Bio Tags Number of related documents Number of related people Number of related places
Khalaf Male Enslaved person +2 Manumitted man mentioned in a letter from the late-twelfth century CE who was married to …
Khalaf al-Kindī Male Other Has endowed a big house in Ṣadaqa street in Fustat.
Khalaf b. ʿAzrūn Male
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. Hārūn Tāj al-Maʿālī Male Jewish community member
Khalaf b. Hiba Ibn al-Ṭunnāmilī Male Jewish community member
Khalaf b. Ibrāhīm al-Ḥallāl Male 7 May 1028 CE
Khalaf b. Yaʿaqov Male
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 …
Khalfa al-Ḥazzan Ibn al-Qafṣī Male
Khalfa b. Isḥāq b. Menaḥem Male Jewish community member
Khalīl al-Mulk b. al-Shaykh Male 23 January 1088 CE Other
Khallūf b. Aharon Male Jewish community member
Khallūf b. Mūsā Ibn al-Ṣāʾigh Male 8 September 1051 CE Jewish community member +1
Khallūf b. Saʿdān Male 9 June 1033 CE
Khaṣīb b. Musāfir Male
(Abū l-Khayr) Khiyār b. Yaʿqūb Male 1094–2 August 1100 CE Jewish community member +1
Khulayf b. Hārūn Male
Khulayf b. ʿUbayd b. ʿAlī b. Khulayf al-Iskandarī Male 27 March 1088–15 March 1089 CE Other Dealer in combs
Khuzzān of the districts of the Fayyūm Male 15 June 1013–1 July 1014 CE State official
King Basil Male State official Two potential candidates for who he could be: either a king of Alodia at Soba, …
King David Male 1107 CE State official
King Mūyis Male 1155–1190 CE State official Likely the King Moses George who is attested in P. QI III 30. This Nubian …
Kitmān Female 10 November 1091 CE Enslaved person Enslaved woman who is mentioned in a bill of sale in which she was sold …
Labrāṭ b. Moshe b. Labrāṭ Ibn Sughmār Male 1140–11 September 1149 CE Jewish communal official Twelfth-century judge and Indian Ocean-related trader, not to be confused with the eleventh-century Mediterranean trader …
(Abū l-Ḥasan) Labrāṭ b. Moshe Ibn Sughmār (11th c) Male August 1056 CE Jewish communal official Dayyān (Jewish judge) of al-Mahdiyya in the late 11th century. Called rēsh bē rabbānān. Originally …
Lāmiʿ ibn Ḥasan al-Kanzī Male 1169 CE State official Muslim landowner in Nubia and courtier to the king of Nubia; correspondent of the Nubian …
Lāzaward Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a legal document (probably a will) of what an unidentified man …
Levi b. Yaʿaqov ha-Levi Male 11 September 1021–29 August 1022 CE Jewish community member
Lnby al-ʿIyārī Male 1132–1149 CE Merchant Ghosh considers the name a variant of the Tamil Brahmin name Ayyar, but Goitein and …
Lngy Male 1136–1149 CE Merchant Could be an Indic name (Ghosh suggested it is a variant of Linga), or it …
Lūluʾa Female 24 September 1131–11 September 1132 CE Jewish community member
Maʿāli b. Bū l-Karam Male 4 December 1130–22 November 1131 CE Jewish community member Jewish silk merchant (qazzāz) known from a small dossier of capitation tax receipts from the …
Maʿālī b. Khalaf Male 14 May 1086–15 October 1198 CE
Maʿānī b. Khalaf Ibn al-Dajājjī Male Jewish community member +1
Macarius Male 1169 CE Other Macarius was the bishop of Sinai, active during the last years of Fatimid rule.
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 1130–1151 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. Sālim Male 1132–1149 CE Merchant Adeni merchant who traveled to the Malabar coast. While returning, he changed ships on the …
Maḍmūn b. Yaʿaqov Male 12 July 1202 CE Jewish community member
Maḥāsin b. Saʿīd b. Hilāl al-Yahūdī al-ʿAṭṭār Male Jewish community member
Maḥāsin b. Zayn b. Barakāt al-Yahūdī al-Ṣayrafī Male Jewish community member
Maḥbūb b. Nissim ha-Ḥazzan Male
Maḥfūẓ al-Ṣūrī Male
Maḥfūẓa bt. Abū l-Faḍl Yosef Zayn al-Tujjār Female 1100–1138 CE Jewish community member
Maḥrūz b. Yaʿaqov Male 24 September 1131–1149 CE Jewish community member +1 Nākhudā (shipowner) traveling between Aden and India
Moshe Maimonides Male 29 May 1032–1204 CE Jewish communal official [placeholder]
Makārim b. Isḥāq al-Mutaṭabbib Male 17 February 1238–18 June 1245 CE Jewish community member Physician and oculist active in the early to mid-12th century.
Makārim b. Mūsā Ibn Nufayʿ Male 17 August 1140–February 1172 CE Jewish community member
Makārim b. Sibāʿ Male Jewish community member
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