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Levi ben Japheth

Levi ben Japheth, born Abu Said al-Lawi ibn Hasan al-Basri, was a prominent Jewish Karaite scholar who flourished in the first half of the 11th century CE, probably at Jerusalem or Ramleh. He is the author of Kitab an-Ni'ma, which is the earliest known Karaite compendium of Mu'tazilite thought.

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• Kohler, Kaufmann and Isaac Broydé. "Levi ben Japheth (halevi) Abu Sa'id." Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, 1901–1906; which contains the following bibliography: :*Pinsker, Liḳḳuṭe Ḳadmoniyyot, p. 64 and Index; :*Julius Fürst, Geschichte des Karäerthums. 1862, ii. 143 et seq.; :*Moritz Steinschneider Polemische und Apologetische Literatur, p. 336; :*Moritz Steinschneider Die Hebräischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher. Berlin, 1893, p. 945 :*Moritz Steinschneider Die Arabische Literatur der Juden, § 46.K. I. Br.
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