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Abu al-Walid al-Baji; Al-Muntaqa sharh al-Muwatta: Commentary on the agreed way (d1081) (Spain)

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Taken from: Actes de vente d'esclaves et d'animaux d'Egypte medievale, Volume 2  By Yusuf Ragib

 

A legal book of the Maliki school.

 

Those slaves devoid of all attraction like the Zang from south of Ethiopia,

to be used in household duties, and in who a pregnancy would not influence

the price or only little (for those slaves it was not important to state that they

were pregnant when being sold)

 

 

An Ethiopian from a Zenan nama  of  1777