# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yihyah-qafih
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:44:20.378Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yihyah-qafih"
name: "Yiḥyah Qafiḥ"
slug: "yihyah-qafih"
description: "Yiḥyah Qafiḥ (1850–1931), known also as \"Ha-Yashish\", served as the Chief Rabbi of Sana'a, Yemen in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was one of the foremost rabbinical scholars in Sana'a during that period, and an advocate of reforms in Jewish education. He was also learned in astronomy, and rabbinic astrology and Jewish classical literature."
tagline: "Prominent Yemenite rabbi"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rabbi_Yihya_Qafih_of_Sana'a%2C_Yemen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1850"
deathDate: "1931-11-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.493702666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi%E1%B8%A5yah_Qafi%E1%B8%A5"
    title: "Yiḥyah Qafiḥ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "يحيى قافيه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%8A%D8%AD%D9%8A%D9%89_%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%87"
    title: "يحيى قافيه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%97%D7%99%D7%90_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%97"
    title: "יחיא קאפח"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%97%D7%99%D7%90_%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%97"
    title: "יחיא קאפח"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi%E1%B8%A5yah_Qafi%E1%B8%A5"
    title: "Yiḥyah Qafiḥ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8053978"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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