Copyright

Geoffrey Khan

Published On

2024-05-06

Page Range

pp. 235–252

Language

  • English

Print Length

18 pages

10. Slaves and Servants

Chapter of: Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia(pp. 235–252)
This section presents the various terms relating to slaves and servants that occur in the documents. The differences in the status of these people are described.

Contributors

Geoffrey Khan

(author)
Regius Professor of Hebrew at University of Cambridge

Geoffrey Khan (PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1984) is Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge. His research publications focus on three main fields: Biblical Hebrew language (especially medieval traditions), Neo-Aramaic dialectology, and medieval Arabic documents. He is the general editor of The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics (Brill, 2013) and is the senior editor of Journal of Semitic Studies. His recent publications include The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Cambridge: University of Cambridge & Open Book Publishers, 2020, Performance of Sacred Semitic Texts (editor, with co-editor Hindy Najman), Dead Sea Discoveries 29, Brill. 2022, and Language Contact in Sanandaj (co-authored with Masoud Mohammadirad), Berlin, de Gruyter, 2024.