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Yusuf was born into the Ibn 'Awkal family, who appear to have originally been of Persian origins - one early letter addressed to Yusuf's father is from Iran and in a mix of Arabic and Judeo-Persian - before moving to what is now Tunisia in the mid-10th century and ultimately to Fustat sometime after the Fatimid conquest of Egypt in 969.
The Radhanites had mostly disappeared by the end of the 10th century; there have been suggestions that a collection of 11th century Jewish scrolls discovered in a cave in Afghanistan's Samangan Province in 2011 may represent a remnant of Radhanites in that area. The economy of Europe was profoundly affected by the disappearance of the Radhanites.
In the 10th century Paris was a provincial cathedral city of little political or economic significance, but under the kings of the Capetian dynasty who ruled France between 987 and 1328, it developed into an important commercial and religious center and the seat of the royal administration of the country. [1]
Joseph of Spain was a Jewish merchant of the ninth and tenth centuries CE and may have been a Radhanite. It is unknown if he was the "Joseph of Spain" who authored numerous mathematical treatises in use in Europe in medieval times. Abraham ibn Daud and other sources credit Joseph with bringing the so-called "Arabic numerals" from India to Europe.
Ibrahim ibn Yaqub's journey. Ibrahim ibn Yaqub (Arabic: إبراهيم بن يعقوب Ibrâhîm ibn Ya'qûb al-Ṭarṭûshi or al-Ṭurṭûshî; Hebrew: אברהם בן יעקב, Avraham ben Yaʿakov; fl. 961–62) was a 10th-century Hispano-Arabic, Sephardi Jewish traveler, probably a merchant, who may have also engaged in diplomacy and espionage.
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On the eastern half of the 11th and 12th stories (floors 12 and 14 [c]) were the quarters of the Merchants' Club, [68] also designed by Armstrong. [65] The lower story of the club contained a hallway measuring 100 by 15 ft (30.5 by 4.6 m) across and 30 ft (9.1 m) high.