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Ghardaia

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see MzabNorman A. StillmanBibliography750

Sanua, James

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Ṣanūʿ (Sanua), Yaʿqūb (James)Norman A. Stillman

Anqāwa (Al-Naqawa), Raphael

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
Raphael ben Mordechai Anqāwa (Raphaël Encaoua and also Ankaoua in the usual French transcription) was a leading Moroccan halakhic authority. The scion of a distinguished Sephardi rabbinical family, he was born in Salé in 1848. He was a pupil of Issachar Assaraf, the chief rabbi of Salé, whose daughter he married. At the relatively young age of thirty-two, he was appointed dayyan in Salé. His reputation for judicial acumen spread his name throughout Morocco. In 1910, he published his collection of responsa Qarne Reʾem (The Horns of the Buffalo) in Jerusalem, which enhanced his …

Ladino

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Judeo-Spanish LiteratureNorman A. Stillman

Arabia

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see ; Aden; Bahrain (Bahrayn); Hadramawt;Hijaz; YemenNorman A. Stillman

Haketia

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Judeo-Spanish - HaketiaNorman A. Stillman

Wargla

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
Wargla (Warglān; Fr. Ouargla) is an oasis town in the Algerian Sahara located 659 kilometers (410 miles) southeast of Algiers. It was once an important way-station on the caravan route to Timbuktu and West Africa. Nothing is known about the town before the Islamic period. The Muslims of medieval Wargla were adherents of the Kharijite Ibāḍī sect, which was generally tolerant of Jews. The Jewish community in Wargla during the Middle Ages was apparently a Karaite center and is noted as such by Abraham ibn Ezraand Abraham Ibn Da’ud. In his commentary on Exodus 12:11, Ibn Ezra ment…

Geniza

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Cairo GenizaNorman A. Stillman

Mangūbī, Shabbetay Elijah

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see KaraismNorman A. Stillman

Barqa

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see BenghaziNorman A. Stillman

Duwayk, Jacob Saul

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Duwayk (Dweck, Dwek, Duek, Douek, Doweck, Dowek) FamilyNorman A. Stillman

Ghriba Synagogues

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
Ghrība (Coll. Ar. wondrous, unique) is the name given to seven supposedly ancient synagogues in Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria which are considered to be holy places and have become pilgrimage sites. The most famous of the Ghrība synagogues is the one in the village of Dighet near Hara Seghira on the island of Jerba. The others are located in Yefren and Mʿanin (actually between Mʿanin and al-Qsir) in the Jebel Nafusa region of Libya, in Le Kef in southern Tunisia and Ariana on the northeastern coast, and in Bône (Būna) and Biskra in Algeria. Many of the Ghrība shrines are in places that …

Bône (Būna)

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Annaba (Bône)Norman A. Stillman

Lyon

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see FranceNorman A. Stillman

Ibn Farhād, Bābāī

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Bābāī ben FarhādNorman A. Stillman

Women

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah; Clothing, Jewelry and Make-up; Education; Life Cycle Practices; Marriage; Prostitution; Polygyny; VeilingNorman A. Stillman

Academic Study of Islamicate Jewry

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
Prior to the second half of the twentieth century, much of the research devoted to the Jews of the Islamic world followed in the paths established by the Wissenschaft des Judentums scholars of the nineteenth century and dealt with the history, literature, and thought of the medieval period. Judeo-Arabic civilization was one of the major foci of Wissenschaft scholarship, as too were aspects of Hispanic Jewish history and culture—but only for the classical Islamic Middle Ages (ca. 850–1250) in the…
Date: 2014-09-03

Tiferet Yisrael School (Ar. al-Madrasa al-Waṭaniyya al-Isrā'īliyya)

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
The Tiferet Yisrael (Glory of Israel) School in Beirut, known in Arabic as al-Madrasa al-Waṭaniyya al-Isrā'īliyya (The Jewish National School), was established by Ḥakham Zakī Cohen and his son Salīm in 1874. It was one of the first and more successful indigenous attempts to create a modern Jewish religious school in the Arab world. Due to financial difficulties, the school closed after one year, but it reopened as a boarding school in 1878 and attracted students from Damascus, Aleppo, Jaffa, and even as far away as Istanbul and Izmir. By 18…

Isaac Ben Na'im

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see Ben Nāʾīm FamilyNorman A. Stillman

Mustaʿrab

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Author(s): Norman A. Stillman
see ToshavimNorman A. Stillman
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