Qawām
Description / Bio
Enslaved Christian woman and survivor of smallpox, Qawām was sold in late October–early November 1090 CE by Ḥanūn b. ʿAllūn to ʿArūs b. Yosef, the wealthy cloth merchant well-known from geniza documents. (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 70)