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Ghazāl

Metadata

Gender
Female
Dates
Active dates
2 July 1155–31 July 1155 CE
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Hindiyya enslaved woman who is mentioned in a bill of sale from 1155 CE in which she was sold by the trader (tājir) Abū ʿAlī b. Natan he-Ḥaver to the buyer Abū l-Faḍl b. Elʿazar. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 32)

Matthew Dudley, "Ghazāl," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/ghazal-2/, accessed February 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/ghazal-2/