Aśu the Convert: A Slave Girl or a Nāyar 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 m...
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| Language: | English |
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CERES / KHK Bochum
2018-04-01
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| Series: | Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer |
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| Online Access: | https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/863 |