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ʿAbīr

Metadata

Gender
Female
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Persian (ʿAjamiyya) enslaved woman, sold in the mid-twelfth century by Abū l-Ḥasan b. Abū l-Yumn to the perfumer Abū l-Fakhr Saʿadya b. Avraham Ibn al-Amshāṭī. (Information from Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 2)

Matthew Dudley and Marina Rustow, "ʿAbīr," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/abir-2/, accessed February 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/abir-2/