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Browsing 209 item(s) in: Slavery and manumission manuscripts of Timbuktu

	Doc No.:	Summary:	Date:	Subject:

201.	MHT 132	Letter to writer's father Ali ibn Sayyid Ziya[n?] al-Sharif, sending him a young female slave and sundry items, including rice.		Slaves as gifts

202.	MHT 165	Letter to Ahmad Baba ibn Abi al-Abbas. Record of female slave given as a gift.		Slaves as gifts

203.	MHT 101	Dispute over the status of a female slave who was given as a present and pushed into prostitution by the new owner. Original owner claims the gift is no longer valid.		Slaves as gifts; Disputes

204.	MHT 166	Record of various transactions in the purchase and sale of assets.		Transactions

205.	MHT 188	Record of various transactions. Verso contains a prayer.		Transactions

206.	MHT 37	Letter to Muhammad ibn Isa, requesting to transfer ownership of young slave from sons of Uthman to Muhammad Abu Bakr ibn Muhammad al-Shaykh.		Transfer of ownership

207.	MHT 163	Account of appropriation of assets to wife and children	1952	Transfer of property

208.	MHT 39	Description of legal status of different kind of wives in Islamic law with repect to inheritance, depending on whether the wife is only for pleasure or as mother and domestic partner.		Women; Marriage; Islamic law; Inheritance and succession

209.	MHT 143	Declaration of distribution of alms tax during Eid al-Fitr		Zakat; Id al-Fitr; Mali.