Creator Bio
Sitt al-Ahl
d. 1143
Sitt al-Ahl was a wealthy businesswoman who at the time of her death was living in the Ḥabs Bunān neighborhood of Fustāt (Old Cairo) near the Fortress of the Greeks. She was married to a merchant from Aleppo named Abū Naṣr al-Ḥalabī al-Tājir (“the trader”), and had a son from a previous marriage, who lived with her parents.
Content by Sitt al-Ahl
Primary Source
Will (Fustāt, Egypt)
This testimony was given in our presence, we, the witnesses signing at the end of this will. This happened on Wednesday, the 26th of Iyyar of the year 1454 of the Era of the Documents [=April 13, 1143…