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Nasrīn

Metadata

Gender
Female
Dates
Active dates
23 March 1148–21 April 1148 CE
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Enslaved woman sold in late March–early April 1148 CE by Moshe b. Shemuel ha-Nagid (i.e., Shemuel b. Ḥananya) to the banker Abū l-Ḥasan b. Munajjā. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 64.)

Matthew Dudley, "Nasrīn," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/nasrin/, accessed March 14, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/nasrin/