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Bama

بيانات التعريف

Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
30 يوليو 1147–17 يونيو 1153 CE
Social role
  • Enslaved person
Other name
Bomma

Description / Bio

Hindī slave and factotum of Avraham ben Yiju. The subject of Amitav Ghosh's book In an Antique Land. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 19)

Matthew Dudley and Alan Elbaum, "Bama," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/bama/, accessed February 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/bama/