Dhahab

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Enslaved woman who married Muwaffaq, an enslaved man, on 26 October 1163 CE. Her dowry was provided by the qāḍī (the couple's enslaver) Abū l-Barakāt [Abū] ʿAbd al-Salām al-[… b. Abī] l-Faraj Muḥammad b. ʿAmmār b. [ʿAl]ī [b. ʿAb]d al-Raḥmān b. [...]. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 22.)