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Jeshua ben Judah (Abū ʾl-Faraj Furqān ibn Asad)
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Jeshua ben Judah (also known as Abū ʾl-Faraj Furqān ibn Asad) was one of the most renowned Karaite scholars in eleventh-century Jerusalem. An outstanding Karaite philosopher and Bible exegete who flourished circa 1040-1060, he was a student of Levi ben Japheth, Yūsuf al-Baṣīr, and Abū ʾl-Faraj Hārūn.

Following his mentor Yūsuf al-Baṣīr, Jeshua became a prominent exponent of the Jewish kalām (scholastic theology), which was influenced by the Baṣran school of the Muʿtazila. The philosophical work of al-Baṣīr and Jeshua became the recognized theology of Karaism for ma…

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Ofra Tirosh-Becker, “Jeshua ben Judah (Abū ʾl-Faraj Furqān ibn Asad)”, in: Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, Executive Editor Norman A. Stillman. Online abgerufen am 19 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-9781_ejiw_SIM_0012000>
Erste Online-Publikation: 2010



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