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Rayḥān

Metadata

Gender
Male
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Nubian enslaved child who is mentioned in a bill of sale in which he was sold together with his mother [...]da and his sister Shamīma by Al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd Seʿadya to the buyer Eliyya b. Ṣadaqa known as Ibn Ḥiyya(?). (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 75)

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