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'Abd al-Malik I bin Marwân I bin al-Hakam (c.646 - 705) 5th Umayyad Caliph b. circa 646, d. October 705Father Marwân I ibn al-Hakam al-Qurayshi, 4th Umayyad Caliph1,2 b. 623, d. 685Mother 'A'isha bint Mu awiya ben al-Mughira 1 b. circa 630Of the Umayyad. 'A... |
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'Abd ar-Rahmân III al-Nasir bin ibn Muhammad, emir of Córdoba (889 - 961) III (Abd al-Rahmān ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allāh; Arabic: عبد الرحمن الثالث; 11 January 889/91[14] – 15 October 961) was the Emir and Caliph of Córdoba (912–961) of the Ummayad dynasty in al-Andalus. Cal... |
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'Allan ben Aaron ibn Khalaf (c.990 - d.) |
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Amir ibn Harithah (c.97 - d.) From Banu Azd Tribe of Yemen. |
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'Amr Salūl Bin ibn 'Amr Ka'b (deceased) Salūl is the name of two tribal groups in northern Arabia: a branch of Ḵh̲uzāʿa [q.v.] and a branch of the so-called Northern Arabian federation Ḳays ʿAylān [q.v.], more precisely, the Hawāzin [q.v.]1.... |
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'Amr ibn Murra (ibn Zayd) (c.-150 - d.) |
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'Amru ibn Abu Kariba As'ad (deceased) Tubbaʿ“The people of Tubbaʿ” ( qawm tubbaʿ), an extinct community mentioned twice in the Qurʾān. Among other pre-Islamic groups, they were punished because they refused to believe God or obey God's pro... |
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Nathan Ha-Bavli has been an enigmatic figure - but I think I have narrowed down to EXACTLY who is Nathan Ha-Bavli. Here is a short description of previous attempts to identify Nathan Ha-Bavli:Since Nat...
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Ukba ben Nechemya (Ukvan), 17th Exilarch (c.290 - c.337) Exilarch Mar Ukba II ben Nehemiah beni David was Exilarch (Exilarch [Hebrew: ראש גלות Rosh Galut, Aramaic: ריש גלותא Reish Galuta lit. "head of the exile", Greek: Æchmalotarcha], referring to the leade... |
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Mohammed I ibn Yusuf ibn Nasr al-Ahmar (1191 - 1273) I ibn Nasr (Arabic: محمد ابن الأحمر) was a Nasrid ruler of the Moorish Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula, and founder of the last Muslim dynasty in Spain in 1238.The Nasrid dyn... |
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Mar Zutra II, 30th Exilarch (c.488 - c.520) Mar-Zutra II was an Exilarch who led a successful revolt against Persia in the sixth century and achieved seven years of political independence in Mahoza.Mar-Zutra II became Exilarch of the Jewish comm... |
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2nd wife ibn Yachya HaZaken (c.1265 - aft.1265) |
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Aaron "Harun ben Khalaf ibn Tanab (c.960 - d.) |
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Aaron II ben Benjamin, of Khazaria (deceased) Aaron ll Wikipedia=Aaron II=A Khazar ruler during the early 10th century CE, Aaron ben Benjamin was the son of the Khazar king Benjamin. Whether Aaron, like the rest of the Bulanids, was a Khagan or a ... |
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* Abai ben Eliezer (deceased) |
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Abaye ben Natronai Kohen Ṣedeq, Gaon of Pumbeditha (c.790 - c.860) According to Sherira Gaon, Abbaye was not his personal name, but Nachmani, after his grandfather. His father had died before Abbaye was born, and his mother died in child-birth. So the orphan was broug... |
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Abba Mari ben Ukba, 20th Exilarch (c.300 - c.370) Exilarch Abba ben Ukba beni David was Exilarch (Exilarch [Hebrew: ראש גלות Rosh Galut, Aramaic: ריש גלותא Reish Galuta lit. "head of the exile", Greek: Æchmalotarcha], referring to the leaders of the D... |
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Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Hakam (deceased) |
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Abd' Allah (Abdullah) ibn Sabaʾ al-Yahudi ibn al-Ḥimyarī ibn al-Sawdā (c.650 - c.695) Founder and creator of Shi'a Islam. All early Sunni and Shia sources are agreed and united that the founder of the Shia sect and its core doctrines is Abdullah bin Saba', the Yemeni Jew.A Jew of Yemen,... |
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Abd Manaf (c.446 - c.500) ‘Abdu Manāf ibn Quṣayy (Arabic: عبد مناف بن قصي) was a Quraishi and great-great-grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and Ali. His father was Quṣayy ibn Kilāb.‘Abdu Manāf married a woman named A... |
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Abdullah I bin ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, 3º califa de Córdoba (843 - 912) Abdullah ibn Muhammad (عبد الله بن محمد), (January 11, 844 - October 15, 912) of the Umayyad dynasty, was the seventh Emir of Córdoba, reigning from 888 to 912 in the Al-Andalus (Moorish Iberia).[sourc... |
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Abdullah ibn Abdul-Muttalib (c.545 - 570) ‘Abdullah: The father of Prophet Muhammad [pbuh]. His mother was Fatimah, daughter of ‘Amr bin ‘A’idh bin ‘Imran bin Makhzum bin Yaqdha bin Murra. ‘Abdullah was the smartest of ‘Abdul-Muttalib’s sons, ... |
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Abiathar ben Elijah haKohen, Final Gaon of Palestine Yeshiva of Tyre (c.1041 - c.1112) Abiathar ben Elijah ha-Kohen, who was born around 1041, probably in Jerusalem, was the last important gaon of the Palestinian yeshiva. He was the eldest of the four sons of Elijah ha-Kohen Gaon, and in... |
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Abraham Yehoshua Heschel ben Ze'ev Parnes (1665 - 1690) Golding Family tree on Ancestry.com had date for Avraham Parnas, father of David Parnes, husband of Halevi wife, married 1685 in Poland |
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Sheshet Benveniste (c.1131 - c.1204) |
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Abraham ben Judah Ibn Ezra (c.1090 - 1125) Also mentioned in Abarbanel Family Scroll – undated handwritten manuscript from the collection of the late Rabbi Shmuel Gorr, held by Chaim Freedman.Reference was made to “Elef Margaliot” 1993, Meir Wu... |
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Abraham ben Me'ir ibn Ezra (c.980 - d.) Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra (Hebrew: אַבְרָהָם אִבְּן עֶזְרָא or ראב"ע; Arabic: ابن عزرا; also known as Abenezra or Aben Ezra, 1089–c.1167 [1][2]) was one of the most distinguished Jewish biblical comm... |
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Abraham Nathan ben Peraḥyā Ya'ishu al-Ishu, Radhani (c.1075 - d.) Ben Yijū, AbrahamUnquestionably one of the most colorful figures to be illuminated by documents from the Cairo Geniza—and in Goitein’s estimation (Letters, p. 186) “the most important single figure” of... |
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Abraham ibn Yahya of Sofia (c.1500 - d.) Reference: "Divrei ha-Yamim le-Bnei Yahya,( דברי הימים לבני יחייא )", by Eliakim Carmoly, Printed in Frankfort am Main/Rodelheim, Published by: Isak Kaufman, 1850. Genealogy of, and biographical work o... |
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Abraham ibn Yachya (deceased) |
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Abraham ben Sahlān (ben Abraham) (b. - c.1032) |
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Abraham ibn Ya'ish (bin Ya'ish) (c.1280 - d.) |
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Abraham ben Shmuel ibn Hasday (haLevi) (1175 - d.) Abraham ben Samuel ha-Levi ibn Ḥasday lived in Barcelona during the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries and was a translator from Arabic to Hebrew, a poet, and an active partisan of Maimonides.... |
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Abraham ben Shlomo Nissim ben Shlomo Nissim Algazi (Algazi) (deceased) |
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Abraham ben Isaac haLevi (c.1560 - d.) Abraham ben Joseph (I) ha-Levi (after 1580–after 1618), the nephew of Solomon the Elder and cousin of Isaac (II), also established himself as a noted religious teacher in Salonica. A student of David I... |
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Abraham ben Moshes Algazi haZaken (c.1560 - 1640) The Algazis were a noted Turkish rabbinical family from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Their origins lay in the city of Bursa, near Istanbul. The family was founded by Abraham ben Moses ... |
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Abram Yakob ibn Yachya (deceased) |
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Abram ibn Yachya (deceased) |
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Abu 'l-Hasan Sa'id ibn Hibat Allah al-Baghdādī al-Baladī, haRoffe (deceased) He was the physician of Salaḥ al-Din (Saladin) and, after the death of the latter, of his brother Al-Malik al-'Adil. Ibn Abi Uṣaibi'ah, in his biographies of the Arabic physicians, speaks highly of Abu... |
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Abu Abdullah "Hanemel" ben Nehemiah II (ibn Abi' l-Huqayq al-Nadir), 36th Exilarch Shallum al-Farsi (c.594 - c.657) According to Zev Golan, Hanemel was sold as a slave. He accepted the leadership of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and became Prophet Muhammad's top Wazir named Solomon al-Farsi.Solomon al-Farsi led an army of... |
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al-Hakam II, Caliph of Córdoba (915 - 976) Al-Hakam II (al-Ḥakam II ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III; Arabic: الحكم الثاني) (January 13, 915 – October 16, 976) was the second Caliph of Cordoba, in Al-Andalus (Moorish Iberia), and son of Abd-ar-rahman II... |
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Abu al-Barakāt Nethan'el ben Mevorakh (Mubārak), Nagid al-Yahudi (1098 - c.1160) Nethanel ben MevorakhNicknamed Abu al-Barakāt, Nethanel ben Mevorakh was the middle son of Mevorakh ben Saʿadya, who served as ra'īs (or colloquially rayyis) al-yahūd (Ar. head of the Jewish community,... |
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Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yaʿīs̲h̲ al-Asadī, Nasi,Qadi,Vizier-Sevilla (1031 - 1086) This man, who was Qadi of Toledo for a short period, I dually identify with the vizier of the Abbadids Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn ʿAmmār. Historians suggest that ibn Ammar was born in Silves, Portugal, whil... |
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Abu Baqr ibn Yaḥyā, II (deceased) Bakr Ben YahiaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBakr Ben Yahia II was an important Mozarab (Iberian Christian living under Muslim domination) figure in Medieval Portugal.Bakr Ben Yahia II was the so... |
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Abu Baqr ibn Yaḥyā, I (1151 - 1227) Bakr Ben Yahia IFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBakr Ben Yahia I was possibly a son of Yahia Ben Yahi III and the father of Yahia Ben Bakr. He was, apparently, the first of his branch of the famil... |
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Abu Ibrahaim Yitzhak ben Yaʿḳōb ibn Ezra (c.1045 - d.) Born around 1045, Isaac (Abū Ibrāhῑm) ibn Ezra was the older brother of Moses ibn Ezra . He lived in Granada quite probably until the arrival of the Almoravids in 1090, when he had to leave for Lucena.... |
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Abu Ishaq Abraham ben Nathan, Nasi (c.1036 - c.1115) Abraham ben Nathan son of Nathan ben AbrahamAbraham ben Nathan, born around 1037, was the only the son of Nathan ben Abraham, the rival of Gaon Solomon ben Judah in the famous conflict that took place ... |
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Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm Ibn ʿAṭāʾ (Abraham ben Nathan) was leader of Qayrawan Jewry in the first third of the eleventh century. He was a member of a wealthy elite that included the Ben Berekhiah, Tahertī, an...
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Abu l-Bāyan Moshe ben Mevorakh (Mubārak), Nagid, Raʾīs al-Yahūd al-Fustat (c.1080 - aft.1128) Moses ben MevorakhMoses ben Mevorakh, the scion of a distinguished family of physician-courtiers in Egypt, was the eldest son and successor of the nagid Mevorakh ben Saʿadya and of a mother who also ca... |
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Abu Musa Levi bar Ishaq ibn Mar Sahl (c.989 - 1013) Ibn Mar Saul, Levi ben IsaacAccording to Moses ibn Ezra (Kitāb al-Muḥāḍara wa ʾl-Mudhākara; Halkin ed., p. 66), Levi ben Isaac ibn Mar Saul was a native of Cordova, where he seems to have lived until 1... |
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Abu Sa'id Yaḥyā Nissim ben Nahray Ibn al-Majjānī (c.1056 - d.) Ibn al-Majjānī FamilyThe Ibn al-Majjānī family, known from documentary sources in the Cairo Geniza, were active in Mediterranean trade during the first half of the eleventh century. The earliest member... |
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Abu Sahl Nathan ben Abraham, Nasi (c.995 - d.) Nathan ben Abraham - a student of Ḥushiel ben ElḥananAbū Sahl Nathan ben Abraham ben Saul, a scion of a gaonic family on his mother’s side, was born in Palestine in the last quarter of the tenth centur... |
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Abu Suleiman David ibn Yaʿīs̲h̲ ben Yehuda Ibn Ya Ish ben Zakai II ben Zakai II, Nasi, Qāḍī, haDayyan of Toledo (c.1010 - 1057) David ben Zakai traveled back to Jerusalem around 1064 to live however he left shortly after arriving in Jerusalem and returned to Fez. His departure coincides with the poisoning of Buluggin ibn Badis ... |
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Abu Yaqub Ishaq bar Levi ibn Mar Sahl (c.1021 - c.1070) Ibn Mar Saul, Isaac bar LeviIn his Kitāb al-Muḥāḍara wa-ʾl-Mudhākara (31), Moses ibn Ezra mentions Isaac ibn Mar Saul (late 10th-11th century) as a prominent member of the second generation of Andalusi... |
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Abu Yosef Yakob ben Amram ibn Mar Sahl al-Nag'hdīlah (c.990 - d.) |
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Abu Yusuf Yehuda (Hasday/Ḥasadya) ben Yitzhak ben Ezra ibn Shaprūṭ (c.915 - 975) Hasdai (Abu Yusuf ben Yitzhak ben Ezra) ibn Shaprut חסדאי אבן שפרוט born about 915 at Jaén; died about 975 at Córdoba in Spain, was a Jewish scholar, physician, diplomat, and patron of science.His fat... |
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Abu Zakariya Yehuda ben Moshe haKohen Alfaquin, haRoffe (c.1240 - d.) Judah ben Moses ha-Kohen, called in Christian sources Don Yhuda Mosca, Yhuda Mosca el Menor, Yhuda fi de Mose fi de Mosca, and Yhuda el Cohen (or Coheneso) Alfaquin, was one of the foremost translators... |
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Abu Zakkai "Yehudah" ben Ahunai, Gaon of Pumbeditha (c.720 - c.771) |
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Abu Zakkai "Yehudah" ben David (c.897 - d.) |
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Abu Zakri Yaḥyā (Yehudah) ben Shlomo HaKohen al-fasi (c.993 - d.) Yahya's father, Solomon, in his first public act as gaon was to write a letter of lavish praise for the Karaite nasi Hezekiah ben David in which he repeatedly expresses the hope of returning from Egypt... |
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Abu Zikri "Yehuda" ben David (ibn Daud), Nasi (c.1015 - c.1059) A reconciliation between Dabid ben Zakkai and Sa'adya Gaon took place on February 27, 937. After the David ben Zakkai's death Sa'adya voted for David's son, Yehuda, as his successor.Sherira's Letter, i... |
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Abu ʾl-Ḥasan ‘Alī "Eli" ibn Sulaymān al-Muqaddasī (Qara'im) (c.1077 - c.1130) ‘Alī ibn Sulaymān, whose full Arabic name is attested as Abu ʾl-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn Sulaymān al-Muqaddasī—or, as otherwise attested in Hebrew (cf. Skoss, Commentary, p. 34; Mann, p. 41; Ibn al-Hītī, p. 435,... |
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Abu ’l-Farad̲j̲ Yaʿḳūb ben Yusuf ibn Killis, al-ad̲j̲all 1st Fāṭimid Wazīr of Al-ʿAzīz (c.935 - c.991) Fāṭimid vizier of the caliph al-ʿAzīz [q.v.]. He was by origin a Jew, born in Bag̲h̲dād in 318/930. He went with his father to Syria and settled at Ramla, becoming an agent for various merchants; but, ... |
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Abu ’l-Hasan ʿAlī ben al-Sh̲aybānī al-Kātib al-Mag̲h̲ribī al-Qayrawānī Ibn Abi ’l-Rid̲j̲āl (c.968 - c.1049) abu ’l-ḥasan ʿalī al-s̲h̲aybānī al-kātib al-mag̲h̲ribī al-ḳayrawānī , was the tutor and astrologer of the Zīrid prince, al-Muʿizz b. Bādīs (407-54/1016-62), who held his court at Ḳayrawān till 449/1057... |
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Averroes, Qadi al-Qurtubi & al-Sebilla (c.1126 - c.1198) Abu ’l-walīd muḥammad b. aḥmad b. muḥammad b. rus̲h̲d, al-ḥafīd ( the grandson ), the “Commentator of Aristotle”, famous in the Mediaeval West under the name of Averroes, scholar of the Ḳurʾānic scienc... |
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Hai ben Sherira, Gaon v'haDayyan b'Pumbeditha (c.939 - 1038) Hai ben Sherira , better known as Hai Gaon , was a medieval Jewish theologian, rabbi and scholar who served as Gaon of the Talmudic academy of Pumbedita during the early 11th century. He was born in 93... |
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Abul-Fat'h al-Mansur ibn Yusif Buluggin, 2nd Zirid Emir al-Ifriqiya (b. - 995) al-Mansûr ibn Buluggin (Arabic: المنصور بن بلوجن) (died 995) was the second ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya (984–995). Al-Mansur succeeded his father Buluggin ibn Ziri (972–984) in Ifriqiya. Despite fu... |
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Abul-Futuh Sayf ad-Dawla Yusif Bologhine ibn Ziri, 1st Zirid Emir & al-Wazir al-Ṣanhājah (c.955 - c.984) |
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Abū ʾl-Faraj Furqān "Yeshua" ben Yehudah ibn Asad (Qara'im) (c.995 - c.1070) Jeshua ben Judah (also known as Abū ʾl-Faraj Furqān ibn Asad) was one of the most renowned Karaite scholars in eleventh-century Jerusalem. An outstanding Karaite philosopher and Bible exegete who flour... |
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Abu Salama ibn Qasi (deceased) |
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Abü Tawr ibn Qasi, valí de Huesca (deceased) Leadership of the Banu QasiThe following men are the documented leaders of the Banu Qasi (entried in italics are of uncertain affiliation to the family):Cassius, fl. 714Abu Taur, Wali of Huesca, fl. 77... |
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Mubārak ben Eli (c.900 - d.) His name is "Abu l-Fadl Mevorakh [Mub%C4%81rak] ben Eli" according to:" Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate " (Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Pas... |
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Abū 'l-Faḍl Mevorakh (Mubārak) ben Saʿadya, Alluf, Nagid, Raʾīs al-Yahūd al-Fustat (c.1040 - c.1111) Mevorakh ben Sa‘adyaOne of the five sons of Saʿadya ben Mevorakh, Abū 'l-Faḍl Mevorakh ben Saʿadya was born around 1040 and began his rise to prominence over the course of the late 1050s under the gaon... |
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Abū al-Khayr Mūsā ben Barhūn al-Tāhertī, ḥaver al-Palestine Yeshiva (c.972 - c.1056) |
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Abū al-Khayr Mūsā ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī (ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tāhertī) (c.1020 - d.) Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms... |
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haRoffe Abū Ayyūb "Suleiman" ibn al-Muʿallim al-Yahūdī (c.1055 - c.1106) In his Treatise on Asthma (102–105), Moses Maimonides mentions that Abū Ayyūb ibn al-Muʿallim from Seville, known as the Israelite (al-Yahūdī), was one of the four physicians at the court of the Almora... |
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Abū Bakr Yaʿīs̲h̲ ben Muhammad ibn Yaʿīs̲h̲, haNasi, Qadi of Toledo (deceased) |
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Abū Faḍl Ṣāliḥ ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī (ibn Ismāʿīl al-Tāhertī) (c.1015 - d.) Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms... |
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Abū Harūn Moses Ibn Abī ʾl-ʿAysh (HaNasi), Qadi al-calat al-Yahud al-Zaragoza (c.1049 - c.1120) bn Abī ʾl-ʿAysh, Moses (Abū Harūn)Almost nothing is known about the poet Moses ibn Abī ʾl-ʿAysh. The only reference to him is made by Moses ibn Ezra in the Kitāb al-Muḥāḍara wa ʾl-Mudhākara (ed. Halkin... |
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Abū Hārūn Mōs̲h̲ē ben Yaʿḳōb ibn ʿEzra, (ibn Ezra) (deceased) Chronologically, Moses (Abū Harūn) ibn Ezra (d. after 1138) was the third of the four most artistically distinguished Hebrew poets of the Andalusian Golden Age of Jewish culture. Born early in the sec... |
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Yosef ben Shmuel HaLevi HaNagid (c.970 - d.) |
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Abū Ibrāhīm Ishaq Ibn Qusṭar ibn Yashūsh, haRoffe al-Denia (c.982 - 1056) Ibn Yashūsh, Isaac (Abū Ibrāhīm) Ibn QasṭārBorn in Toledo around 982, Abū Ibrāhīm Isaac ibn Yashūsh died in the same city in 1056. He was a court physician in the service of ʿAlī ibn Mujāhid and his so... |
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Abū Ibrāhīm Ismāʿīl ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī, ḥemdat ha-yeshiva (c.1008 - d.) Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms... |
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Abū Isḥāq Barhūn ibn Isḥāq al-Tāhertī (ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī) (deceased) Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms... |
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Abraham ibn Da'ud haLevi, Rabad I (c.1110 - c.1180) Abraham ben David Halevi ibn Daud , (born c. 1110, Toledo, Castile—died c. 1180, Toledo), physician and historian who was the first Jewish philosopher to draw on Aristotle’s writings in a systematic fa... |
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Abū Manṣūr Mevorakh ben Samuel al-Barqūlī, Neʾeman haMalkhut (deceased) Members of two generations of the Ibn al-Barqūlī family are mentioned in several letters from the Cairo Geniza (all composed during the first decade of the thirteenth century), as well as in the poetry... |
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Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh Ibn Rus̲h̲d, Qadi (deceased) Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh Ibn Rushd (sixth-seventh/twelfth-thirteenth centuries) was one of the sons of the famous philosopher Ibn Rushd (d. 595/1198), known in the West as Averroes. According to the meag... |
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Abū Naṣr Samawʾal ibn Yaḥyā al-Mag̲h̲ribī al-Lawī, Apostate (c.1126 - c.1175) Abū Naṣr Samawʾal b. Yaḥyā al-Mag̲h̲ribī (?520-70/?1126-75)Prominent physician and mathematician who lived and practiced among the notables of Syria, ʿIrāḳ, Kurdistān and Ād̲h̲arbāyd̲j̲ān. Born and rai... |
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Rabbi Yehiel Hilel Gaon II (c.1060 - c.1080) "In 1066, when his father, Jehoseph HaNagid, was assassinated and a riot broke out against the Granadan Jewish community, his widow, Rahel, and his son Abū Naṣr Azariah, who was a child at the time, fl... |
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Abū Naṣr Yosef ben Mevorakh (Mubārak) al-Barqūlī, haSar haNikhbad (deceased) Members of two generations of the Ibn al-Barqūlī family are mentioned in several letters from the Cairo Geniza (all composed during the first decade of the thirteenth century), as well as in the poetry... |
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Abū Sahl ʿAṭāʾ ibn Ishaq al-Tāhertī (ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī) (b. - c.1062) Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms... |
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Abū Saʿīd Hārūn "Aaron" ben Moshe, haSofer al-Tabari (c.860 - d.) Aaron Ben Asher (Abū Saʿīd Hārūn) lived and worked in Tiberias in the first half of the tenth century. He was the sixth and last member of the Ben Asher dynasty of masoretes (see Ben Asher, Moses). He ... |
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Abū Saʿīd Yūsuf ibn Musa al-Tāhertī (ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī) (b. - c.1062) Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms... |
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Abū Sulaymān David ben Sa'adya ben ha-Ger (= Ibn Muhājir) (Ibn Muhājir) (c.1025 - d.) Abū Sulaymān (David?) ibn Muhājir was a member of the illustrious Ibn Muhājir family of Seville, linked to this city at least from the middle of the eleventh century. In the Romance language, his famil... |
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Abū Surūr Isḥāq Barhūn ben Mūsā al-Tāhertī ḥaver (c.1010 - 1062) Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms... |
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Abū Surūr Isḥāq Barhūn ben Musa al-Tāhertī, ḥaver al-Palestine Yeshiva (deceased) Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms... |
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Abū Surūr Isḥāq ibn Barhūn al-Tāhertī (c.1017 - d.) Tāhertī FamilyThe Tāhertīs were a Maghrebī merchant family active in the period from 1010 to 1075. Together with the houses of Ibn ʿAwkal, al-Tustarī, and Nahray ben Nissim, the Tāhertīs were, in terms... |
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Isaac Israeli haZaken, haRoffe (c.835 - c.955) Abū Yaʿḳūb Isḥāḳ b. Sulaymān al-Isrā-ʾīlī, abū yaʿḳūb (ca. 243/855 - ca. 343/955), physician, médical writer and philosopher, was born in Egypt and appointed court physician by ʿUbayd Allāh al-Mahdī af... |
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Abū Yaḥyā Nahray "Nehorai" ben Nissim, Nagid (c.1025 - c.1098) Nahray ben Nissim (ca. 1025-1098), nicknamed Abū Yaḥyā , was a North African merchant and communal leader. More than 350 letters, notes, and accounts from the Cairo Geniza are either addressed to him o... |
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Abū Zikrī "Yehudah" ben Yosef ben Simḥa, Rosh haSeder (c.950 - c.1020) Judah ben Joseph of QayrawanJudah ben Joseph b. Simḥa was perhaps the most important figure in the Jewish community of Qayrawān toward the end of the tenth century and the beginning of the eleventh. Kn... |