ABRAHAM BEN DAVID MAIMUNI
- ABRAHAM BEN DAVID MAIMUNI
- ABRAHAM BEN DAVID MAIMUNI (c. 1246–c. 1316), nagid
of Egyptian Jewry. Abraham was the eldest son of R. David, the grandson
of Maimonides. During his father's old age he shared the position of
nagid with him for ten years. After his father's death he
remained nagid and was successful in 1313 in convincing a
large group of Karaites, among whom were some wealthy men and
intellectuals, to return to Rabbanite Judaism.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
S. Assaf, Be-Oholei Ya'akov (1943), 184; Ashtor, Toledot, 1
(1944), 228–32; Goitein, in: Tarbiz, 34 (1964/65), 253–5;
Eshtori ha-Farḥi, Kaftor va-Feraḥ, ed. by H.Edelmann (1852),
13b.
(Eliyahu Ashtor)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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