Abulafia

Detail from the family tree of the Abulafia family.

Abulafia is the Latinized version of the Arabic name أبو العافية , Abu-l-Afiyya , ( Hebrew אבולעפיה). It is widely used as a family name among Sephardic Jews .

Name bearer

• Meir ha-Levi Abulafia (* around 1165, † 1244), Talmud scholar and Halachist
• Abraham Abulafia (* 1240; † 1291/92), Spanish Kabbalist
• Samuel ha-Levi Abulafia , Spanish finance minister, founded the El Tránsito synagogue in 1357
• Yossi Abolafia (* 1944), Israeli author and illustrator
• David Abulafia (* 1949), British Medievalist