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Yumn

Metadata

Gender
Female
Dates
Active dates
11 September 1149 CE
Social role
  • Jewish community member
Other name
ימן

Description / Bio

A relation--and probably a sister (identified as such in Goitein & Friedman's published Ben Yijū family tree, see India Book p. 89)--of Avraham Ibn Yijū. She was married to a man named Maʿmar who predeceased her. She may not have had children of her own because Avraham's granddaughter was also called Yumn. (Goitein and Friedman, India Traders, 684)

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.
Sasha Batz Stern and Pratima Gopalakrishnan, "Yumn," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/yumn-bt-perahya-ben-yiju/, accessed June 10, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/yumn-bt-perahya-ben-yiju/