Rahaj
Description / Bio
Enslaved woman who is mentioned in a court register entry from 1182 CE in which she was given by Abū Manṣūr Elʿazar b. Elʿazar al-Dimashqī to his daughters Ḥasab and Khafāʾ. Abū Manṣūr Elʿazar had previously inherited Rahaj from his wife Fakhr bt. Abū l-Surūr Ibn al-Jashshāsh. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 73)