P-D-N (פדן)

Description / Bio

Hindī enslaved man mentioned in a bill of sale from 1194 CE in which he was sold by Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet b. Nadiv ha-Levi to the buyer Abū a-Mufaḍḍal al-Sayrafī b. Abū l-Ḥasan of the Nānū family. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 68)