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Qaḍīb

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Gender
Female
Dates
Active dates
7 سبتمبر 1157–25 أغسطس 1158 CE
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

ʿAjamiyya enslaved woman mentioned in a bill of sale from 1157/58 CE in which she was sold by Sitt al-Dalāl bt. Abū Naṣr to Abū l-Bayān Moshe ha-Levi the merchant in the Dār al-Ṣarf. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 69)

Matthew Dudley, "Qaḍīb," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/qadib/, accessed June 5, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/qadib/