Daughter of Ḥananʾel b. Shemuʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī
Description / Bio
Daughter of the scholar Ḥananʾel b. Shemuʾel Ibn al-Amshāṭī and sister-in-law of Avraham Maimonides. She married her aunt's son, Peraḥyā b. Nissīm Ben Yijū, who studied under her father in Fustat.
Select bibliography
- S. D. Goitein, "ר' חננאל הדיין הגדול ביר' שמואל הנדיב, מחותנו של הרמב"ם" (in Hebrew), Tarbiz / תרביץ 50, no. 10 (Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies / המכון למדעי היהדות ע"ש מנדל, 1980), 95-371.