Tawfīq
Description / Bio
Enslaved minor mentioned in a draft deed of sale in which she was sold by Nafīsa bt. Kathīr, the widow of Yaʿaqov ha-Kohen, to the buyer Abū l-Barakāt b. Shaʿyā. Although the first two letters are damaged, Tawfīq is possibly listed as [Fara]sāwiyya. On this possibility, Craig Perry notes that [Fara]sāwiyya "could be a reference to Tawfīq's jins as of the Nubian town Faras or the Persian province Fars. Another possibility is that the scribe, Ḥalfon b. Menasse, misheard or misspelled Tarsāwiyya." (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 103, p. 278)