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Aśu the Convert: A Slave Girl or a NAIR Land Owner?
Aśu was a twelfth-century woman from the West Coast of South India. She is mentioned as a Tuḷuva “slave girl” (šifḥa) in a deed of manumission authored by Abraham Ben Yijū, a Jewish merchant who lived with her for nearly eighteen years and had children with her. It is thus accepted that Aśu was a ma...
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Entangled Religions
2018
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/008226.pdf |