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Jawhar

מטא-דאטא

Gender
Male
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Enslaved man mentioned in a letter sent from Khalaf b. Yiṣḥaq in Aden to Avraham Ibn Yiju in Dahbattan on the Malabar coast. The dating estimate for the letter is post-1138/1139 CE according to Goitein and Friedman. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 47)

Matthew Dudley, "Jawhar," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/jawhar/, accessed June 2, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/jawhar/