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Intijāb

Metadata

Gender
Female
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Enslaved woman mentioned in a draft bill of sale in which the seller is [...] bt. Ṣadoq who, based on this document's PGP description, may be the wife of Abū l-Faḍl Shela ha-Levi Sar ha-Leviim. The scribe identified Intijāb as "black" (אנתגאב אלסודה). (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 43)

Matthew Dudley, "Intijāb," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/intijab/, accessed June 5, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/intijab/