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Abū ʿAbdallāh Ibn Abū l-Katāʾib Male 1131–27 August 1147 CE Merchant +1 Son of the Muslim ship-owner and nākhudā Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn Abū l-Katāʾib. He primarily traveled … Related Documents 8 Related People 1 Related Places 0
Abū ʿAlī Male 1153–1156 CE Other Related Documents 2 Related People 1 Related Places 0
Abū ʿAlī b. Abū ʿUmar Male 1167 CE Jewish community member +1 An India trader assisted at least once by Ḥalfon b. Maḍmūn. Abū ʿAlī referred to … Related Documents 4 Related People 3 Related Places 0
Abū ʿAlī b. Ṭayyib al-Miṣrī Male 1136–1150 CE Merchant Merchant who traveled between Aden and India. On one occasion, he carried copper vessels from … Related Documents 4 Related People 0 Related Places 2
Abū ʿAlī Ibn al-Ḥallā Male 30 July 1147–27 August 1147 CE Merchant Ḥallāʾ is the traditional name for a silversmith in southern Yemen. Here it is part … Related Documents 1 Related People 0 Related Places 1
(Abū ʿImrān) Moshe b. Shemuʾel Ben Yijū Male 1170–1190 CE Jewish community member The eldest son of Shemuʾel b. Yosef Ben Yijū. Related Documents 1 Related People 12 Related Places 3
Abū l-Faraj al-Jubaylī Male 1100–1140 CE Merchant A merchant known to Yosef b. Avraham, who (while commissioning a copper vessel from Ibn … Related Documents 2 Related People 0 Related Places 0
Abū l-Faraj al-Maḥallī Male Merchant Perished in a shipwreck off the coast of Bharuch Related Documents 1 Related People 0 Related Places 0
Abū l-Faraj b. Moshe al-Baghdādī Male 1136–1139 CE Merchant A young merchant who had perhaps absconded to Ceylon after arriving in the Malabar region … Related Documents 1 Related People 1 Related Places 0
Abū l-Ḥasan al-Maḥallī Male 1138–1150 CE Merchant Related Documents 1 Related People 0 Related Places 0
(Abū l-Ḥasan) ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar Male 1138–1150 CE Merchant Merchant who traveled on at least one occasion to the Malabar coast (Fandarayna) and conveyed … Related Documents 1 Related People 1 Related Places 1
Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn Abī l-Katāʾib Male 1133–1140 CE Merchant +1 Muslim ship-owner and nākhudā in the Indian Ocean trade in the 12th century. Related Documents 6 Related People 1 Related Places 0
Abū l-Ḥasan Ibn al-Marīḍa al-Qarawī Male 1140 CE Merchant Merchant on the Malabar coast. Perhaps a man of some importance or simply an associate … Related Documents 1 Related People 0 Related Places 2
Abu ʾl-Khayr b. al-Minqār Male 1135 CE Jewish community member +1 Avraham Ibn Yijū's cousin, the son of his maternal aunt. From Goitein and Friedman: "This … Related Documents 2 Related People 6 Related Places 1
Abū l-Surūr b. Khallūf al-Ṭalḥī Male 1136–1140 CE Merchant Indian Ocean trader known to Yosef b. Avraham who went on at least one occasion … Related Documents 3 Related People 0 Related Places 1
Abū Naṣr b. Elishaʿ Male 2 March 1135–29 June 1155 CE Jewish community member +1 Related Documents 8 Related People 1 Related Places 1
Aḥmad b. Abū l-Faraj Male 1137–1140 CE Other Shipowner or ship's captain (rubbān). Related Documents 1 Related People 0 Related Places 0
al-Muhadhdhab Male 5 April 1234 CE Jewish community member A son of Shemuʾel b. Yosef Ben Yijū, though it is unclear whether this is … Related Documents 1 Related People 12 Related Places 5
Aśu Female 17 October 1132–27 August 1147 CE Enslaved person +2 Tuḷuva woman (i.e., native of Tulunad, the region around Mangaluru). Avraham Ben Yijū bought her … Related Documents 3 Related People 21 Related Places 3
Avraham b. Yosef b. Avraham b. Bundār Male 1127–31 October 1152 CE Jewish community member Eldest son of Yūsuf b. Avraham, the Indian Ocean trader. Mentioned in a letter where … Related Documents 4 Related People 4 Related Places 0
Avraham Ben Yijū Male 1131–1156 CE Jewish community member +1 Avraham Ben Yijū or Ibn Yijū (fl. 1132–49) was an Indian Ocean trader who left … Related Documents 72 Related People 27 Related Places 6
Bakhtiyār Male 1100–1150 CE Enslaved person Enslaved man (ghulām) who is mentioned in a letter that was sent by Khalaf b. … Related Documents 2 Related People 2 Related Places 0
Bama Male 1130–17 June 1153 CE Enslaved person Hindī slave and factotum of Avraham ben Yiju. The subject of Amitav Ghosh's book In … Related Documents 13 Related People 0 Related Places 0
Berakha bt. Peraḥyā Ben Yiju Female 1145–1169 CE Jewish community member Member of the well-known Ben Yijū family and sister of, among others, Avraham Ben Yijū. … Related Documents 4 Related People 17 Related Places 2
Bilāl b. Jarīr al-Awḥadī Male 1130–1149 CE Merchant +2 The most prominent Muslim merchant in Aden, and later a general and ruler of Aden. … Related Documents 3 Related People 2 Related Places 1
Bundār b. Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan Male 1140–1150 CE Jewish community member +1 Related Documents 4 Related People 16 Related Places 0
Ḍāfir Male 1138–1150 CE Merchant Rare name. This Ḍāfir had an enslaved agent named Jawhar Related Documents 1 Related People 3 Related Places 0
Ḍāfir b. Faraj Male 1136–1139 CE Merchant Ḍāfir is a rare name. This trader traveled on at least one occasion from Aden … Related Documents 1 Related People 1 Related Places 0
Daniʾel b. Ḥasday the Exilarch Male 17 October 1132 CE Jewish communal official Related Documents 1 Related People 0 Related Places 1
Daughter 2 of Yosef ha-Kohen al-Sijilmāsī Female 11 September 1149 CE Jewish community member Related Documents 1 Related People 17 Related Places 0
Daughter of Nissīm b. Peraḥyā Ben Yijū Female Jewish community member The daughter (name unknown) of Nissīm b. Peraḥyā Ben Yijū and of a daughter of … Related Documents 1 Related People 17 Related Places 0
Daughter of Ḥananʾel b. Shemuʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī Female Jewish community member Daughter of the scholar Ḥananʾel b. Shemuʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī and sister-in-law of Avraham Maimonides. She … Related Documents 0 Related People 6 Related Places 1
Daughter of Shemuʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī Female Daughter of Shemuʾel b. Ḥananʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī. She married Nissīm b. Peraḥyā, a grandson of … Related Documents 1 Related People 10 Related Places 0
Elʿazar b. Shemuʾel Ben Yijū Male 1152–1176 CE Jewish community member A younger son of Shemuʾel b. Yosef Ben Yijū. Related Documents 1 Related People 12 Related Places 3
Fatan Swamī Male 1138–1150 CE State official Not a proper name but a title. Paṭṭanasvāmi ('lord of the mart') referring to the … Related Documents 1 Related People 0 Related Places 0
Fidyār Male 1136–1150 CE Shipowner (nākhudā) active in the Indian Ocean in the first half of the 12th century. Related Documents 4 Related People 1 Related Places 0
Ḥajjāj Male October 1154–November 1156 CE Jewish community member +1 A merchant or carrier who, having received merchandise from Yosef Yijū's sons, took considerable time … Related Documents 3 Related People 1 Related Places 1
Ḥananʾel b. Shemuʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī Male 1214–1300 CE Jewish communal official +1 [placeholder] Related Documents 8 Related People 7 Related Places 2
Hārūn b. Mūsā Male Merchant Traveled with his brother to Bharuch but the ship was "struck in the Khawr" (i.e., … Related Documents 1 Related People 1 Related Places 1
Ibn ʿAdlān Male 1138–1150 CE Merchant Merchant who traveled on at least one occasion on the Malabar coast. Maḍmūn sent him … Related Documents 1 Related People 0 Related Places 1
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 … Related Documents 6 Related People 1 Related Places 0
Kārdār (title) Male 1137–1146 CE Other Title (translated "manager") is of Persian origin but holder's proper name is unknown. Ibn Yijū … Related Documents 3 Related People 0 Related Places 0
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 … Related Documents 2 Related People 7 Related Places 1
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 … Related Documents 31 Related People 12 Related Places 1
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 Related Documents 48 Related People 24 Related Places 1
Maḍmūn b. Sālim Male 1146 CE Merchant Adeni merchant who traveled to the Malabar coast. While returning, he changed ships on the … Related Documents 1 Related People 0 Related Places 2
Maʿmar Male Jewish community member Husband of Avraham's sister Yumn. Died ca. 1149. Related Documents 1 Related People 9 Related Places 1
Marwān b. Zikrī b. Biḥār Male 1149–1152 CE Jewish community member Husband of Berākhā bt. Peraḥyā Ben Yijū and brother-in-law of, among others, Avraham Ben Yijū. … Related Documents 1 Related People 8 Related Places 2
Masʿūd (Captain) al-Ḥabshī Male 1138–1150 CE Other Captain (rubbān) of Abyssinian origin (al-Ḥabshī) who traveled between Aden and the Malabar coast Related Documents 1 Related People 0 Related Places 0
Menaḥēm b. Yosef (II) Ben Yijū Male Jewish community member Apparently, a great-grandson of Avraham Ben Yijū. Goitein and Friedman source his existence to T-S … Related Documents 1 Related People 16 Related Places 0
(Abū l-Bishr) Mevassēr Ben Yijū Male 1145–1154 CE Jewish community member A brother of the India trader Avraham Ben Yijū. Like their brother Yosef, Mevassēr received … Related Documents 11 Related People 17 Related Places 3
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