JACOB BEN NETHANEL BEN FAYYŪMĪ
- JACOB BEN NETHANEL BEN FAYYŪMĪ
- JACOB BEN NETHANEL BEN (AL-) FAYYŪMĪ (12th
century), nagid of Yemenite Jewry, when ʿAbd al-Nabī ibn al-Mahdī,
the ruler of yemen , decreed a forced renunciation of Judaism in
about 1160. Many Jews converted to Islam and the Messiah's coming was
widely awaited. R. Jacob turned for counsel to maimonides , who
replied in the form of a letter known as Iggeret Teiman
("Epistle to Yemen," c. 1172) in which he sought to strengthen the faith
of the Jews of the country.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY::
Neubauer, Chronicles, 1 (1887), 122; M. Maimonides, Iggeret
Teiman, ed. by A.S. Halkin (1952), v–ix (introd.); A.Z. Aescoly,
Ha-Tenu'ot ha-Meshiḥiyyot be-Yisrael (1956), 178–81;
ADD. BIBLIOGRAPH: J. Kafih (ed.), Iggerot
Rabenu Moshe Ben Maimon (1972), 9–10.
(Abraham David)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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