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Name Gender Dates Social role Description / Bio Tags Number of related documents Number of related people Number of related places
ʿOvadya b. ʿUlla Male 1150–1181 CE
ʿOvadya b. Yiṣḥaq ha-Kohen Male 2 January 1091 CE Jewish community member
ʿOvadya ha-Ger Male [Placeholder] See https://johannes-obadiah.org/.
P-D-N (פדן) Male 1194 CE Enslaved person Hindī enslaved man mentioned in a bill of sale from 1194 CE in which he …
Peraḥya b. Aharon Male 11 January 1151 CE
(Abu ʾl-Surūr) Peraḥya b. Avraham Ben Yijū Male 1130–1151 CE Jewish community member Beloved, eldest son of the freedwoman Ashū and the Indian Ocean trader Avraham Ben Yijū. …
(Abū l-Surūr) Peraḥya b. Binyamin Male 1100–1138 CE Jewish community member "[P]art owner of the Lebdi house and identified as a perfumer (ʿaṭṭār). Perfumers often were …
Peraḥya b. Ḥalfon ha-Meʿuttad Male 15 January 1106 CE
(Abū l-Surūr) Peraḥya b. Menashshe ha-Levi Male 1100–1138 CE Jewish community member
Peraḥya b. Natan Male 1 July 1084 CE
Peraḥya Ben Yijū Male Jewish community member Scribe from Al-Mahdiyya and father of, among others, Abraham Ben Yijū.
Peraḥyā b. Nissīm Ben Yijū Male 1232–30 September 1239 CE Jewish community member Son of Nissīm b. Peraḥyā Ben Yijū and of a daughter of Shemuʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī. …
Peraḥya b. Sahlān Male Jewish community member
Peraḥya b. Shemuʾel ha-Melammed Male 11 July 1154–July 1156 CE
Peraḥya b. Ṭarfon ha-Kohen Male 1094–1139 CE Jewish community member
(Abū l-Surūr) Peraḥya b. Tiqva ha-Levi Ibn al-Amʿaṭ Male 10 October 1155–23 November 1167 CE Jewish community member
Peraḥya b. Yosef Male 12 February 1092–1138 CE
Peraḥya b. Yosef (Alexandria) Male 25 May 1096–23 June 1096 CE
Peraḥyā b. Yosef Ben Yijū Male 1145–1200 CE Jewish communal official +1 A judge. Also, the Torah-learned but not business-minded nephew (and later, son-in-law) of Avraham Ben …
Peraḥyā (II) b. Yosef (II) Ben Yijū Male Jewish community member A Torah scholar. His grandfather, a judge and Torah scholar, was also named Peraḥyā b. …
Pinḥas b. Meshullam Male 1172–1204 CE
Pinḥas b. Yahaboy ha-Levi Male Jewish community member
Pinḥas b. Yosef Male
Pseudo-ʿArūs Male Jewish community member Prolific scribe of Judaeo-Arabic accounts whose hand resembles that of ʿArūs b. Yosef. His name …
Qaḍīb Female 7 September 1157–25 August 1158 CE Enslaved person ʿAjamiyya enslaved woman mentioned in a bill of sale from 1157/58 CE in which she …
Qāsim Male Merchant Flax broker in Būṣīr in the eleventh century.
Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Nuʿmān Male 1036–1049 CE Muslim judicial official Abū Muḥammad Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Nuʿmān was the great-grandson of the eminent Fatimid …
Qāsim Ibn al-Qatīf Male
Qāsim (Qaṣr Ibrīm) Male State official
Qayyim al-Dawla Male State official
Qīmawayh b. Ḥasan Male 17 September 939–21 September 1039 CE Jewish community member
Qawām Female 28 October 1090–7 November 1090 CE Enslaved person Enslaved Christian woman and survivor of smallpox, Qawām was sold in late October–early November 1090 …
Qurrat al-ʿAyn bt. ʿAllūn b. Musāfir b. Wahb Female 1100 CE Jewish community member
Rahaj Female 2 October 1133–11 October 1133 CE Enslaved person Nubian enslaved woman, purchased by Abū l-Hasan Shelomo b. Menashshe ha-Kohen and given to his …
Rahaj Female 13 September 1151–31 August 1152 CE Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a bill of sale from 1151/1152 CE in which she was …
Rahaj Female 7 March 1182–5 April 1182 CE Enslaved person Enslaved woman who is mentioned in a court register entry from 1182 CE in which …
Raḥel al-Giyoret al-Rūmiyya Female 16 March 1227 CE
Rāhim (Qaṣr Ibrīm) Male Enslaved person Ghulām and son of an enslaved woman (jāriya). He seems to have belonged to an …
Raḥamīm b. ʿImrān Male Jewish community member +1
Rāmisht Male 23 November 1131–1140 CE Other Nākhudā. Shipowner or ship's captain. Name suggests Persian origin. Sometimes his name is spelled Rāshmit.
Rasm Female 1129–1130 CE Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a legal document dated 1441 Seleucid (1129/1130 CE). (Information from PGP …
Rayḥān Male Enslaved person Nubian enslaved child who is mentioned in a bill of sale in which he was …
Rayḥān Male 11 May 1141 CE Enslaved person +1 Factotum of the Fāṭimid caliphate, mentioned in a letter from 1141 CE. It is unclear …
Riḍā Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a bill of sale in which she was sold by Michal …
Riḍwān b. ʿĀṭiyya Male 9 May 1164 CE Other
Riḍwān Ibn Walakhshī Male 1137–1139 CE State official Riḍwān b. al-Walakshī was a Fatimid wazīr and army commander under the caliph al-Ḥāfīẓ.
Ruzīn b. Shabīb al-ʿĀmirī Male 16 September 1064–14 October 1064 CE Muslim judicial official
(Abū l-Fakhr) Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī Male 1145–1172 CE Jewish community member
Saʿadya Kohen Male
Saʿadya Kohen Male
Saʿdān b. Thābit Levi Baghdādī Male 1135–13 May 1146 CE
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