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Abu Saʿĩd b. Maḥfūẓ Ibn Jamāhir (12th c)

מטא-דאטא

Gender
Male
מסמכים
Active dates
23 נובמבר 1131–19 דצמבר 1144 CE
Posthumous mentions
1146 CE
Social role
  • Jewish community member
Other names
Ibn Jumayhir
Ḥalfon b. Shemarya ha-Levi

Description / Bio

Nākhudā who traveled to India. On one occasion, he purchased an enslaved woman, impregnated her and then sold her to someone who went to Berbera, or left her there while himself passing through there. This incident involving the unnamed woman and her child was controversial. An enslaved man (ghulām) named Ṣafī complained about Ibn Jamāhir's behavior, and Ibn Jamāhir retaliated by having Ṣāfī brought before the governor in ʿAydhāb and beaten.

Select bibliography

  1. S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman, India Book 2: Madmun, nagid of Yemen, and the India trade: Cairo Geniza documents‎ (in Hebrew) (Ben-Zvi Institute, 2010).
  2. 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 and Marina Rustow, "Abu Saʿĩd b. Maḥfūẓ Ibn Jamāhir (12th c)," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/halfon-b-shemarya-ha-levi/, accessed June 2, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/halfon-b-shemarya-ha-levi/