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Maḍmūn b. David

Metadata

Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
1175–1237 CE
Social role
  • Jewish communal official
Other names
Shemaryā b. David
Maḍmūn II
Shemaryāha b. David

Description / Bio

Maḍmūn b. David is a descendant of the first Maḍmūn — possibly his great-grandson through his eldest son Ḥalfon b. Maḍmūn. Maḍmūn b. David is addressed as Nagīd (IB II, 69), and as a leader of the Jewish community in two documents. At some point, he was also representative of the merchants in Aden. In IB II, 67, he describes the Jewish community returning to the religion after what might have been a period of temporary apostasy under the previous ruler of Yemen.

Life events

  1. Rule of Yemen by al-Malik al-Muʿizz Ismāʿīl ()

    Moss. IV,7 (PGPID 5449), T-S 28.11 (PGPID 5459)

Sasha Batz Stern, Alan Elbaum, and Pratima Gopalakrishnan, "Maḍmūn b. David," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/madmun-b-david/, accessed February 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/madmun-b-david/