Exponents of an early 20th-century Jewish Enlightenment movement in Yemen referred to themselves as Dardaʿim (Generation of the Knowledgeable). They pushed for reform of Jewish educational methods and religious practice. Their ideas were not implemented due to resistance from the conservative Ikshim (Obstinates), who defended the traditional Yemeni-Jewish customs and kabbalistic concepts. Despite this, the Dardaʿim were the best-known movement of mode…