Sitt al-Samar
Description / Bio
Enslaved woman who was manumitted ca. 1151 CE by Sitt al-Ḥusn on her deathbed (the wife of the Judge Natan b. Shemuʾel ha-Ḥaver). Sitt al-Ḥusn bequeathed to Sitt al-Samar and another freedwoman a quarter dār (residential compound) as well as a room that will serve as the pair's future residence "provided they remain of Jewish faith." (Translation from Gil, Documents of Jewish Pious Foundations, with information from PGP and Craig Perry, Slavery and the Jews of Medieval Egypt, Appendices 1-2, no. 98, no. 35)