JAPHETH BEN DAVID IBN ṢAGHĪR

JAPHETH BEN DAVID IBN ṢAGHĪR
JAPHETH BEN DAVID IBN ṢAGHĪR (14th century), Karaite scholar and physician in Cairo. Japheth was a pupil of Israel ha-Ma'aravi, and followed his example in rejecting the use of objective analogy (hekkesh) in the rules applying to matrimony and incest. He was the author of Sefer ha-Mitzvot, of which parts 5 to 9 have been preserved in manuscript. In it Japheth quotes many earlier Karaite scholars, including Daniel b. Moses al-Qūmisī\>\> , as well as works of some Rabbanite authors. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Steinschneider, Arab Lit, 244; Mann, Texts, 2 (1935), 282 n. 76. (Isaak Dov Ber Markon)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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  • ISRAEL (ben Samuel?) HA-DAYYAN HA-MA'ARAVI — (d. before 1354), Karaite scholar living in cairo . Israel, with his pupil japheth b. david ibn Ṣaghīr, is reported to have overcome the last vestiges of opposition to the reform of the Karaite law of incest, begun by jeshua b. judah and others… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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