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Rāhim (Qaṣr Ibrīm)

بيانات التعريف

Gender
Male
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Ghulām and son of an enslaved woman (jāriya). He seems to have belonged to an eparch at Ibrīm before being trafficked, together with his mother, further north to a merchant. After his mother fell ill, their new owner sent them back to the eparch, but the messenger who accompanied them fell ill, and eventually both Rāhim and his mother died.

Select bibliography

  1. Geoffrey Khan, Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia (University of Cambridge and Open Book Publishers, 2024).
Pratima Gopalakrishnan, "Rāhim (Qaṣr Ibrīm)," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/rahim/, accessed February 25, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/rahim/