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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 …
Abū ʿAlī Male 1153–1156 CE Other
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 …
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 …
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 …
(Abū ʿImrān) Moshe b. Shemuʾel Ben Yijū Male 1170–1190 CE Jewish community member The eldest son of Shemuʾel b. Yosef Ben Yijū.
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 …
Abū l-Faraj al-Maḥallī Male Merchant Perished in a shipwreck off the coast of Bharuch
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 …
Abū l-Ḥasan al-Maḥallī Male 1138–1150 CE Merchant
(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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Abū Naṣr b. Elishaʿ Male 2 March 1135–29 June 1155 CE Jewish community member +1
Aḥmad b. Abū l-Faraj Male 1137–1140 CE Other Shipowner or ship's captain (rubbān).
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Bakhtiyār Male 1100–1150 CE Enslaved person Enslaved man (ghulām) who is mentioned in a letter that was sent by Khalaf b. …
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 …
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. …
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. …
Bundār b. Maḍmūn b. Ḥasan Male 1140–1150 CE Jewish community member +1
Ḍāfir Male 1138–1150 CE Merchant Rare name. This Ḍāfir had an enslaved agent named Jawhar
Ḍāfir b. Faraj Male 1136–1139 CE Merchant Ḍāfir is a rare name. This trader traveled on at least one occasion from Aden …
Daniʾel b. Ḥasday the Exilarch Male 17 October 1132 CE Jewish communal official
Daughter 2 of Yosef ha-Kohen al-Sijilmāsī Female 11 September 1149 CE Jewish community member
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 …
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 …
Daughter of Shemuʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī Female Daughter of Shemuʾel b. Ḥananʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī. She married Nissīm b. Peraḥyā, a grandson of …
Elʿazar b. Shemuʾel Ben Yijū Male 1152–1176 CE Jewish community member A younger son of Shemuʾel b. Yosef Ben Yijū.
Fatan Swamī Male 1138–1150 CE State official Not a proper name but a title. Paṭṭanasvāmi ('lord of the mart') referring to the …
Fidyār Male 1136–1150 CE Shipowner (nākhudā) active in the Indian Ocean in the first half of the 12th century.
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 …
Ḥananʾel b. Shemuʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī Male 1214–1300 CE Jewish communal official +1 [placeholder]
Hārūn b. Mūsā Male Merchant Traveled with his brother to Bharuch but the ship was "struck in the Khawr" (i.e., …
Ibn ʿAdlān Male 1138–1150 CE Merchant Merchant who traveled on at least one occasion on the Malabar coast. Maḍmūn sent him …
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 …
Kārdār (title) Male 1137–1146 CE Other Title (translated "manager") is of Persian origin but holder's proper name is unknown. Ibn Yijū …
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 …
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 …
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
Maḍmūn b. Sālim Male 1146 CE Merchant Adeni merchant who traveled to the Malabar coast. While returning, he changed ships on the …
Maʿmar Male Jewish community member Husband of Avraham's sister Yumn. Died ca. 1149.
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. …
Masʿūd (Captain) al-Ḥabshī Male 1138–1150 CE Other Captain (rubbān) of Abyssinian origin (al-Ḥabshī) who traveled between Aden and the Malabar coast
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 …
(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 …
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