Abraham Bin Yijū(Arabic:إبراهيم بن ييجو) was a Jewish merchant and poet born in Ifriqiya, in what is now Tunisia, around 1100.
[2]: 123–24 It was presumably also here that he met his later Aden correspondents Yūsuf Ben Abraham (a trader and judicial functionary) and the merchant Khalaf ibn Isḥāq, along with Maḍmūn's brother-in-law Abū-Zikrī Judah ha-Kohen Sijilmāsī and Abū-Zikrī's brother-in-law Maḥrūz.
[2]: 125–27 By 1132, Abraham had moved to the trading port of Mangalore in the region of India then known to Arab traders as Malabar.
Shelomo Dov Goitein inferred accordingly that Ashu had become Abraham's wife and was Surūr's mother.
[2]: 5–6 His activities in Mangalore took him to the neighbouring towns of Budfattan (possibly Baliapatam), Fandarīna (Pantalayini Kollam), Dahfattan (Dharmadam) and Jurbattan (Sreekandapuram).
The letter expresses his desire to reunite his family in Aden, to use his wealth to ameliorate their hardship, and to marry his son to one of his nieces.
[2]: 262 A major part of In an Antique Land by the Indian writer Amitav Ghosh is devoted to Abraham Ben Yiju, and his slaves Ashu and Bomma, a fictional narrative sticking closely to the facts known from the surviving correspondence.