Joseph Rabban ( old Malayalam:Narayanan, M. G. S. ''Perumāḷs of Kerala: Brahmin Oligarchy and Ritual Monarchy: Political and Social Conditions of Kerala Under the Cēra Perumāḷs of Makōtai (c. AD 800 - AD 1124).'' Thrissur (Kerala): CosmoBooks, 2013. 451-52. Issuppu Irappan, also Yusuf/Oueseph Rabban) was a prominent Jewish merchant/aristocrat in the entrepôt of

Kodungallur Kodungallur (; also Cranganore, Portuguese: Cranganor; formerly known as Mahodayapuram, Shingly, Vanchi, Muchiri, Muyirikkode, and Muziris) is a historically significant town situated on the banks of river Periyar on the Malabar Coast in Th ...

(Muyirikkottu) on the Malabar Coast, India in early 11th century AD. Jewish copper plate (c

According to the

Jewish copper plates of Cochin Jewish copper plates of Cochin (Malayalam: ജൂതശാസനം), also known as Cochin plates of Bhaskara Ravi-varman, is a royal charter issued by the Chera Perumal king of Kerala, south India to Joseph Rabban, a Jewish merchant magnate of ...

(c. 1000 AD), a charter issued by the Chera king at Kodungallur, Rabban was granted the rights of merchant guild anjuman/hanjamana along with several other trade rights and aristocratic privileges. He was exempted from all payments made by other settlers in the city of Muyirikkottu to the king (at the same time extending to him all the rights of the other settlers). These rights and privileges were given perpetuity to all his descendants. Anjuman was a south Indian merchant guild organised by Jewish, Christian, and Islamic merchants from West Asian countries.Noburu Karashmia (ed.), ''A Concise History of South India: Issues and Interpretations.'' New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014. 136, 144. Rabban's descendants continued to have prominence over other Jews of the Malabar coast for centuries. A conflict broke out between descendants, Joseph Azar, and his brother Aaron Azar in the 1340s.Sidney Mendelssohn (1920), ''The Jews of Asia,'' p. 109

References

* Blady, Ken. ''Jewish Communities in Exotic Places''. Northvale, NJ:

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Inc., 2000. pp. 115–130.

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