# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bostanai
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:29:52.610Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bostanai"
name: "Bostanai"
slug: "bostanai"
description: "Bostanai, also transliterated as Bustanai or Bustnay, also known by his personal name Haninai, was the first Exilarch under Arab rule. He lived in the early-to-middle of the 7th century, and died about AD 670. The name is Aramaized from the Persian bustan or bostan, meaning \"Garden\". Bostanai is the only Dark Age Babylonian Exilarch of whom anything more than a footnote is known. He is frequently made the subject of Jewish legends."
tagline: "Jewish leader in Mesopotamia (c.599–670)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Bustani.png/330px-Bustani.png"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "618"
deathDate: "670"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.95
  momentum:             6.005802707930366
  historical:           5.894890666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C"
    title: "بوستنای"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostanai"
    title: "Bostanai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostanai"
    title: "Bostanai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostanai"
    title: "Bostanai"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustena%C3%AF"
    title: "Boustenaï"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%9F_%D7%97%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%99"
    title: "בוסתנאי בן חנינאי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q741501"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump