Akramiyya
Description / Bio
Enslaved woman who was manumitted before April 1217 CE, Akramiyya grew up in the household of al-shaykh al-Asʿad the physician, probably Asʿad the physician from al-Maḥalla who appears in Ibn Abi Usaybi'a's biographical dictionary of physicians. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 2, no. 1.)