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Warda

Metadata

Gender
Female
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Enslaved woman mentioned in a trousseau list. Warda was born in to slavery (muwalladat al-jins). (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 116)

Matthew Dudley, "Warda," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/warda/, accessed June 5, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/warda/