Jacob Qirqisani (c. 890 – c. 960) (Arabic: ابو یوسف یعقوب القرقسانی ʾAbū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī, Hebrew: יעקב בן יצחק הקרקסאני Yaʿaqov ben Yiṣḥaq haQarqesani)...

Al-Maghariyyah, 'people of the caves') or Maghāriya were, according to Jacob Qirqisani, a Jewish sect founded in the 1st century BCE. The group apparently...

other two and is still in use today. By the time of Saadia Gaon and Jacob Qirqisani, Palestinian Hebrew had come to be regarded as standard, even in Babylonia...

tradition identifies as Metatron. The tenth century Karaite scholar Jacob Qirqisani believed that rabbinic Judaism was the heresy of Jeroboam of the Kingdom...

Rabbanite—lived where ʻAnan's activities took place, and that the Karaite sage Jacob Qirqisani never mentioned ʻAnan's purported lineage or candidacy for Exilarch...

other two and is still in use today. By the time of Saadia Gaon and Jacob Qirqisani, Palestinian Hebrew had come to be regarded as standard, even in Babylonia...

throughout history have held warmer opinions about him. Karaite scholar Jacob Qirqisani stated that some Karaites of his day believed that: Jesus was a good...

(Arabic: Al-Maghariyyah, 'people of the caves') were, according to Jacob Qirqisani, a Jewish sect founded in the 1st century BCE. Abraham Harkavy and...

lived where Anan's activities took place and that the Karaite sage Jacob Qirqisani never mentioned Anan's purported lineage or candidacy for exilarch...

a particularly effective spy for the rabbis). The Karaite scholar Jacob Qirqisani also believed that Paul created Christianity by introducing the doctrine...

an Arabic daily Al Anwar, short for Kitab al-anwar wal-maraqib by Jacob Qirqisani c.728 CE Al Anwar, Al-Hakim Mosque in Cairo Al Anwar, Grand Anwar Mosque...

century, when the Tiberian notation was adopted: both Saadia Gaon and Jacob Qirqisani report that in their time the Palestinian pronunciation had come to...

is believed to antedate the Tiberian vocalization. As late as 937, Jacob Qirqisani wrote: "The biblical readings which are wide-spread in Yemen are in...

transferred their intellectual and religious heritage to al-Andalus. Jacob Qirqisani Yefet ben Ali Jeshua ben Judah Daniel al-Kumisi Joseph ben Abraham...

of Saadia Gaon, and in his "Agron", as well as in the writings of Jacob Qirqisani. Modern research points to the probability that he and his teacher...

Baghdad, said to have been Meshwi's place of residence. According to Jacob Qirqisani, Meshwi al-Ukbari lived after Ishmael al-Ukbari [he; fr]; his original...

is shown by his two surnames, the latter of which is found only in Jacob Qirqisani's works. Al-Kumisi's attitude to Anan ben David and his violent opposition...

Jeshuah ben Judah's commentary upon the Torah, from the commentary of Jacob Qirqisani, from Jeshuah ben Judah's other works, and from the "Sefer ha-Mizvot"...

prohibitions are based, quotes Karaite authorities such as Anan ben David and Jacob Qirqisani on the subject, and produces the views of the Rabbinites Saadia and...

of him are Qirqisani, a Jewish Karaite historian; and Shahrastani, who wrote an extensive guide to Jewish sects over the ages. Qirqisani places the events...

Judging from the quotations made by later Karaite writers, such as Jacob al-Qirqisani, Yefet ben Ali, and Hadassi, Benjamin betrayed the influence of Philonic...

alternate dating ascribed to the Karaite Qirqisani: Robert Hoyland, 28. Note 60 cites: L. Nemoy, "Al-Qirqisani's Account of the Jewish Sects", Hebrew Union...

in Egypt (or Babylonia) in the first half of the tenth century Ya'akov Qirqisani aka al-Kirkisani, dogmatist, author, and exegete of the early 10th century...

Introduction to Karaite Judaism: History, Theology, Practice, and Culture. N.p.: Qirqisani Center, 2003. Print. This ban was recently lifted by the Karaite Council...

Crimean Karaites According to Descriptions of the Travelers. New York: al-Qirqisani, 2003. The book “Masa UMriva”, an essay by the Karaite scholar Abraham...

Karaite Judaism: History, Theology, Practice and Culture. Albany, NY: Qirqisani Center. ISBN 978-0-9700775-4-7. Himelstein, Shmuel (2011). "Chief Rabbinate"...

Karaite Judaism: History, Theology, Practice and Culture. Albany, NY: Qirqisani Center. ISBN 978-0-9700775-4-7. Zohar, Zion, ed. (2005). Sephardic and...

Introduction to Karaite Judaism: History, Theology, Practice, and Culture. N.p.: Qirqisani Center, 2003. Print. Numbers 26 :53–55, Numbers 36 :7–8 Meyer, Michael...

commentary on the Book of Nahum (1911); Sketch of Hebrew Grammar (1913); Qirqisānī Studies (1918); An Ethiopic-Falasi Glossary (1921); Commentary on Deuteronomy...

were Judaized", something underwritten by the Qaraite scholar Ya'kub Qirqisânî around 937. The conversion appears to have occurred against a background...