As a preface; I am building a backstory for a DnD character, who was the slave of a rich merchant for the purpose of showing off his wealth.
As such, I'm curious what other sorts of slaves and/or servants a rich merchant would have.
The culture is roughly medieval middle east, but it is flexible, so I'll take any answer that roughly conforms to this, whether it be muslim Spain, medieval Egypt, the Ottoman Empire or whatever else.
If real-life merchants did not grow rich enough to have sprawling estates, then hearing about how the nobles did it will work as well
I'm sure anyone that well off would have private cooks, and likely also some kind of chambermaid or equivalent, as I doubt such people cleaned their own rooms. But what else would one be likely to find?
I hope this is not too general a question. I attempted to google the issue, but it was surprisingly difficult to find information about medieval middle east or even the ottoman empire (... beyond the harem, anyway, which is not what I'm interested in)
Sorry for this late response! I think this is a great question, and something I would like to learn more about myself. I hope one of our users could answer this question specifically, but since none appear to have done so I can at least link some earlier answers that are on adjacent topics. In this thread u/Zooasaurus writes about Ottoman slavery (so late mediaeval-early modern period), both household slavery and other forms, and here u/sunagainstgold discusses what kind of work women would do in the Islamic world, including as servants. I am also aware that eunuchs were common as servants of the wealthy, so there are many threads written by u/caffarelli, this for instance, that might be relevant