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Mubārak

Metadata

Gender
Male
Social roles
  • Enslaved person
  • Manumitted person

Description / Bio

Enslaved man, or possibly a freedman, mentioned in a letter that was written shortly after the siege of Acre by crusaders in May 1104 CE. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendices 1-2, no. 54, no. 16)

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