An introduction to the Arabic literature of the Jews

by Moritz Steinschneider

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 ...in the seventh volume of his Literaturgesch., has omitted A. and his father; O'seibia, II, 163, contains a larger article on him unknown to Leclerc). Jewish history has not yet taken notice of these royal physicians. A physician Afif Amram, also at Haleb, but 1297-8, born 1235-6, friend of the mystic ibn Hud, was perhaps an offspring of the Jew1? (Goldziher, J. Q. JR., VI, 218). 553. fSysjT? Josef ibn, MS. Bodl., Neub. 585; Salomo b. Josef DNDJ) ' Assass," ap. Schwab, Revue des &t. Juivea, XXXIV, _i29, 130? 554-?enpy 1 Josef ibn, at Rome, 1539, ap. Vogelstein and Rieger, Gesch., II, 418. This name is strange; perhaps it is to be read tjnpy? see trnpj?. 555-pJpy, also pay, 'Akninl Josef ibn, pupil of Maimonides (Catal. Bodl., p. 1440; see other quotations in Magazin f. d. Wiss. d. Jud., XV, 105); this name is not yet explained. 556. topy 'Akra? Abraham ibn, Gated. Bodl., p. 665. M. Steinschneider. (To be continued.) 573. Toos, the family-name Foa or Fua is perhaps of Arabic origin 1? 574. iNls(iK) &l-Faurwdl (the bean-merchant; not &-Fual, as I find still in Vogelstein and Rieger, I.e., I, iao), Polem. u. apologet. Lit., p. 76, Hebr. Bibliogr., IX, 138, where some persons are named (see also Magazinf. d. Wiss. d. Jud., VII, 104; Salfeld,Zie Erklarer des Hohenl., p. 175); Munadjdjiin b. al-F. at Saragossa (eleventh cent., Die hebr. Ubersetz., p. 923, ap. Hammer, Lit., VII, 494, inexactly " Fewal "), and in Saragossa, A. 1232, Josef b. Salomo, Josef b. Chajjim and Samuel b. Jehuda ibn al-F. In the Resp. of Jos. ibn Megas, n. 167 (Resp. of Maimonides, f. 32), I find Isak ben fo '£&«, probably 5K"»iN; Abraham b. al-F. (Resp. Isak b. Scheschet, n. 399). 575. 'His, see 'Bip. £576. Tpis, ipbia, nxpTia Pulgar, ...

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Published January 1, 2012

About the author

Moritz Steinschneider was a Bohemian bibliographer and Orientalist. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father, Jacob Steinschneider (b. 1782; d. March 1856), who was not only an expert Talmudist, but was also well versed in secular science. The house of the elder Steinschneider was the rendezvous of a few progressive Hebraists, among whom was his brother-in-law, the physician and writer Gideon Brecher.

Steinschneider wrote with ease in German, Latin, French, Italian, and Hebrew; his style was not popular, intended only "for readers who know something, and who wish to increase their knowledge"; but, curiously enough, he did not hesitate to write, together with Horwitz, a little reader for school-children, Imre Binah (1846), and other elementary school-books for the Sassoon School of the Bene Israel at Bombay. In 1839 he wrote Eine Uebersicht der Wissenschaften und Künste welche in Stunden der Liebe nicht uebersehen sind for Saphir's Pester Tageblatt, and in 1846 Manna, a volume of poems, adaptations of Hebrew poetry, which he dedicated to his fiancée, Augusta Auerbach, whom he married in 1848.