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Wafāʾ

Metadata

Gender
Female
Dates
Active dates
20 January 1181 CE
Social roles
  • Enslaved person
  • Manumitted person

Description / Bio

Enslaved woman who was manumitted on 20 January 1181 CE by Nasab, Furs, and Sāda, the daughters of Zayn b. Abū l-Riḍā. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendices 1-2, no. 114, no. 42)

Matthew Dudley, "Wafāʾ," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/wafa/, accessed June 3, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/wafa/