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Yaḥyā b. Khalīla

Metadata

Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
1094–1097 CE
Social roles
  • Jewish community member
  • Merchant

Description / Bio

Member of the Tunisian Khalīla family. India trader; traveled at least once to Aden.

Select bibliography

  1. S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India traders of the middle ages : documents from the Cairo Geniza : India book (Brill, 2008), vol. 1.
Pratima Gopalakrishnan, "Yaḥyā b. Khalīla," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/yahya-ibn-khalila/, accessed June 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/yahya-ibn-khalila/