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Tamīm

מטא-דאטא

Gender
Male
מסמכים
Active dates
1100 CE
Social role
  • Jewish community member

Description / Bio

Possibly the same as Tamīm b. Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen. He is always mentioned without a family name and occasionally without an honorific epithet. Twice he is mentioned transporting cloves from Aden to Fustat. There is also mention of a lawsuit against him in 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, "Tamīm," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/tamim/, accessed February 24, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/tamim/