SAMUEL BEN MOSES AL-MAGHRIBĪ
- SAMUEL BEN MOSES AL-MAGHRIBĪ
- SAMUEL BEN MOSES AL-MAGHRIBĪ (ha-Ma'aravi;
15th century), karaite physician and author living in
cairo . In 1434 Samuel completed a code of Karaite law in Arabic
entitled al-Murshid ("The Guide"), divided into 12 sections.
His exposition is orderly and lucid, with infrequent polemics against
the rabbanites , and he readily adopted Rabbanite customs that
seemed to him unobjectionable. Samuel's work is apparently the last
Karaite legal code to have been written in Arabic; all the later codes
were, so far as is known, written in Hebrew. Although soon superseded by
the code of Bashyaẓi , Hebrew translations of "The Guide" were
still current in the 18th century.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Steinschneider, Arab Lit, 250f.; S. Poznański, Karaite Literary
Opponents of Saadiah Gaon (1908), 81f.; Mann, Texts, 2 (1935),
index; L. Nemoy, Karaite Anthology (1952), 196–229.
(Leon Nemoy)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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