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Shamīma

מטא-דאטא

Gender
Female
Social role
  • Enslaved person

Description / Bio

Enslaved Nubian child mentioned in a bill of sale in which she was sold together with her mother [...]da and brother Rayḥān by Al-Rayyis Abū Saʿd Seʿadya to the buyer Eliyya b. Ṣadaqa known as Ibn Ḥiyya(?). (Information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendix 1, no. 97)

Matthew Dudley, "Shamīma," available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/shamima/, accessed February 9, 2026.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/people/shamima/