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Name Gender Dates Social role Description / Bio Tags Number of related documents Number of related people Number of related places
Unnamed Enslaved Person 31 Male Enslaved person Enslaved man mentioned in a letter ca. 1030 CE from Mūsā b. Yiṣḥaq b. Nissim, …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 32 Female Enslaved person Christian enslaved woman mentioned in a legal query to Avraham Maimonides about a married man …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 33 Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a court record recounting how she had been sold by Mubāraka …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 34 Female Enslaved person +1 Enslaved woman possibly mentioned in a medieval-era letter. Many of the details in the text …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 35 Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a legal document in which Sitt al-Fakhr bt. Ṭoviyya testifies that …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 36 (Rūmiyya) Female 995 CE Enslaved person Enslaved Byzantine woman (jāriya Rūmiyya) mentioned in the dowry list section of a ketubba from …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 37 (in Fusṭāṭ) Female 11 July 1119–9 August 1119 CE Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a bill of sale from Fusṭāṭ, 1119 CE. (Information from PGP …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 38 Female 4 May 1217 CE Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a court register entry from 1217 CE regarding her sale by …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 39 (Zanjī) Male Enslaved person Zanjī enslaved man whose death is reported in a mid-twelfth-century letter between India traders. (Information …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 4 Male Enslaved person Enslaved child mentioned in a letter ca. 1080 CE, he died at a young age …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 40 (Hindī) Male 1131–1146 CE Enslaved person Hindī enslaved man and merchant's factotum mentioned in a letter sent between India traders from …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 41 (Hindiyya) Female Enslaved person +1 Hindiyya enslaved woman mentioned in a medieval-era state petition connected to complaints surrounding her son's …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 42 Female 1066–1108 CE Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a draft spousal agreement ca. 1066–1108 CE in which a husband …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 43 Female 1100–1115 CE Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a communal alms list, ca. 1107 CE. Her enslaver is named …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 44 Female 1100–1138 CE Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a damaged bill of sale, ca. 1100-38 CE, in which she …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 45 Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman who appears as the petitioner in badly damaged Mamlūk-era state petition. Only the …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 46 Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a draft of accounts for the communal qodesh, her enslaver is …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 47 Female Enslaved person Enslaved six-year-old child who was purchased in the western Indian Ocean region and trafficked to …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 48 Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a draft bill of sale in which she was purchased by …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 49 Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in two geniza documents related to a marital/financial dispute between a husband …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 5 Female 25 October 1134 CE Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a court case resulting from Sitt al-Fakhr bt. ʿAmram ha-Levi's allegations …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 50 Female Enslaved person Daughter of an enslaved woman mentioned in a letter regarding a marital/financial dispute, ca. 1140-59 …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 51 (in Fusṭāṭ) Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a communal list of deaths in Fustat from the last day …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 52 (in Fusṭāṭ) Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a communal list of deaths in Fustat from the last day …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 53 (in Fusṭāṭ) Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a communal list of deaths in Fustat from the last day …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 54 Female 21 June 1213–19 July 1213 CE Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a draft bill of sale from the early thirteenth century CE …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 6 (Nūbiyya) Female 22 August 1227 CE Enslaved person Nubian enslaved woman mentioned in a legal document from 1227 CE, possibly a bill of …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 7 (Nūbiyya) Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a legal document as a "black waṣīfa of the Nubian type …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 8 (Ḥabashiyya) Female 8 July 1260 CE Enslaved person Abyssinian enslaved woman mentioned in a bill of sale from 1260 CE in which she …
Unnamed Enslaved Person 9 (Nūbiyya) Female Enslaved person Nubian enslaved woman mentioned in a bill of sale in which she was sold by …
Unnamed Manumitted Person 57 Female Enslaved person +1 Manumitted man mentioned in a letter, c. 1089 CE from Libya (Tripolitania) to Egypt. He …
Unnamed Manumitted Person 58 Unknown Enslaved person +1 Enslaved person who was emancipated in a thirteenth-century deed of manumission, most of which is …
Unnamed Manumitted Person 59 Female Enslaved person +1 Enslaved woman who was emancipated in medieval-era deed of manumission, much of the document is …
Unnamed Manumitted Person 60 (in Fusṭāṭ) Female Enslaved person +2 Manumitted woman mentioned in a communal list of deaths in Fusṭāṭ from the last day …
Unnamed Manumitted Person 61 Female 1100–1138 CE Enslaved person +1 Manumitted woman mentioned in a legal document, ca. 1100-38 CE, dealing with inheritance litigation that …
Unnamed Manumitted Person 62 (in Fusṭāṭ) Male 6 March 1231–4 April 1231 CE Enslaved person +1 Manumitted man mentioned in a legal document, c. 1231 CE, who had been born into …
Unnamed Manumitted Person 63 Male Enslaved person +1 Enslaved person who was manumitted in the late tenth or early eleventh century CE. He …
Unnamed Manumitted Person 64 Female Enslaved person +1 Manumitted woman who was the subject of a legal query from Moshe b. Peraḥya, the …
Unnamed Manumitted Person 65 Male Enslaved person +2 Manumitted man who is referenced as a contributor in a communal list of donations, ca. …
Unnamed Manumitted Person 66 Male Enslaved person +1 Manumitted man mentioned in an illness letter to a cantor regarding liturgical hymns for Passover, …
Unnamed Manumitted Person 67 Male Enslaved person +1 Manumitted man referenced as a "friend of the rayyis" in a letter from the physician …
Unnamed Manumitted Person 68 Male 1025–1075 CE Enslaved person +1 Manumitted man mentioned in a court register entry from the mid-twelfth century CE regarding marital …
Younger Son of Avraham b. Peraḥyā Ben Yijū Male 1146 CE Jewish community member A younger son of the freedwoman Ashū and the India trader Avraham Ben Yijū. Born …
Abū l-Khayr Uruwī ibn Khiyākh Male 1160–1171 CE State official Eparch and ikhshīl in Ibrīm in 1160s–70s, i.e., royal deputy of the king of Dongola. …
ʿUshshāq Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a bill of sale in which she was sold by Sitt …
ʿUthmān b. ʿUmar al-Ṣiqillī al-Anṣārī Male Other
Wafāʾ Female 20 January 1181 CE Enslaved person +1 Enslaved woman who was manumitted on 20 January 1181 CE by Nasab, Furs, and Sāda, …
Wajīh al-Dawla Abū l-Mufaḍḍal Jaʿfar b. Ibrahīm b. Sulaymān Male 1011–1015 CE State official He is the appointee for guarding and certifying revenue in the Fayyūm.
Walāʾ Unknown Enslaved person Enslaved person possibly mentioned in a letter sent by the wife of Yehuda b. Moshe …
Warda Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a trousseau list. Warda was born in to slavery (muwalladat al-jins). …
Waṣl Female Enslaved person Enslaved woman mentioned in a dowry list. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and …
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