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(Abū l-Ḥasan) ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn

Metadata

Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
1100–July 1116 CE
Social roles
  • Jewish community member
  • Merchant
Other names
ʿAllāl b. Ḥassūn
ʿAllān b. Yefet

Description / Bio

Indian Ocean trader. Son of the sister of ʿArūs b. Yūsuf, married to one of his daughters, and his protégé. Went to Sindabūr. See further Goitein, "Portrait of a Medieval India Trader: Three Letters from the Cairo Geniza," BSOAS 1987

Sasha Batz Stern, Alan Elbaum, Pratima Gopalakrishnan, and Marina Rustow, "(Abū l-Ḥasan) ʿAllān b. Ḥassūn," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/allan-b-hassun/, accessed February 24, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/allan-b-hassun/