Sumanid

The Sumanid family are one of five families of power in the politics of the city of Haison. Their vast wealth has been in part earned through the growing, harvesting, and trading of spices and control a competitive majority of the Haisuanni spice market against the Zifafid family.
== History ==
The Sumanid family was founded by Suma al-Qarish, a minor noble who rose fairly late to prominence during the late Safferid. Suma - or al-Suma - was trained as a Magi from an orphan where he received his education. But the young al-Suma abandoned his ecclesiastical education to become a ship's boy aboard a merchant vessel by the age of thirteen. By eighteen he had risen the ranks to being an officer aboard the merchant ship, marrying the captain's daughter.
By his mid-twenties he managed to finance the purchase of his own ship. Through the profits earned from the ship he participated in speculation in multiple trades and land sales and acquired a respectable wealth. His fortunes expanded through his thirties when he was able to settle into the city proper and manage a growing businesses kingdom and growing family. His fortunes continued to grow and he was able to cash in his mercantile strength for political prominence and entered into city politics.
From there, his son Assan ibn-Suma inherited a large sum of his father's business operations. It was when Suma died and Assan took the head of the family he carried the family into power in the Wāli-Emirs and entered the city council. Doubling as a city magistrate, he for a time enjoyed the position as a magistrate at the Caliph's court.
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