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Yakhīn

بيانات التعريف

Gender
Male
Dates
Active dates
1100–1138 CE
Social roles
  • Enslaved person
  • Manumitted person
Other name
Thābit

Description / Bio

Manumitted man who is mentioned in a debt acknowledgment as part of his son's nomenclature, Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Yakhin/Thābit the freedman. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 2, no. 43)

Matthew Dudley, "Yakhīn," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/yakhin/, accessed August 11, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/yakhin/