PART I: RESOURCES
 
BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS IN ARABIC CHARACTERS

Hoerning, Reinhart. British Museum Karaite MSS: Six Karaite Manuscripts of Portions of the Hebrew Bible in
Arabic Characters. London, 1889.

Geoffrey Khan, Karaite Bible Manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1990).

 
 
KARAITE TEXTS IN ARABIC CHARACTERS
 

Al-Qirqisānī, Ya‘qūb. Kitāb al-anwār wa-l-marāqib. 5 vols. Ed. Leon Nemoy. New York, 1939-1943.

 
Yefet b. ‘Eli on Jeremiah:

Philip David Wendkos (ed.), The Arabic Commentary of Yefet b. Ali the Karaite on the Book of Jeremiah:
150 Folios Edited from Three MSS with Critical Notes. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation (Dropsie College,
1969).

Joshua A. Sabih, Japhet ben Ali´s Book of Jeremiah: A Critical Edition and Linguistic Analysis of the
Judaeo-Arabic Translation (London: Equinox, 2009).

 
Yefet b. ‘Eli on Psalms:

Jean Joseph Léandre Bargès (ed.), Excerpta ex R. Yapheth ben Heli commentariis in Psalmos Davidis regis
et prophetae (Paris: Lutetiae Parisiorum [prostat apud B. Duprat, Instituti Imperialis Gallicani Bibliopolam],
1846).

Jean Joseph Léandre Bargès (ed.), Kitab al-zubur: Libri Psalmorum David regis et prophetae versio a R.
Japheth ben Heli Bassorensi Karaitâ (Paris: Lutetiae Parisiorum [excudebant Firmin Didot Fratres Instituti
Regii Franciae Typographi], 1861).

 
Yefet b. ‘Eli on Proverbs

Zacharias Auerbach (ed.), Iepheti ben Eli Karaitae in Proverbiorum Salomonis caput XXX commentarius,
nunc primum arabice editus, in latinum conversus, adnotationibus illustratus (Bonn: Typis Caroli Georgi, 1866).

Michael G. Wechsler, “The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli on Proverbs 31:1–9,”
REJ 161(3–4) (2002): 393–409.

idem, “The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli on Proverbs 31:10–31,” JJS 54(2)
(2003): 283–310.

 
Yefet b. ‘Eli on Ruth

Nahum Schorstein (ed.), Der Commentar des Karäers Jephet ben ’Ali zum Buche Rûth, zum ersten Male nach
drei Mss. ediert, mit Einleitung und Anmerkungen versehen (Berlin: M. Popperlauer’s Buchhandlung, 1903).

Sagit Butbul, “The Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli the Karaite on the Book of Ruth,” Sefunot 8(23) (2003):
459–571 [Hebrew].

 
Yefet b. ‘Eli on Song of Songs

Joseph Léandre Bargès (ed.), Rabbi Yapheth Abou Aly Ibn-Aly Bassorensis Karaitarum doctoris sapientissimi
in Canticum Canticorum commentarium arabicum (Paris: Lutetiae Parisiorum [prostat apud B. Duprat,
Instituti Imperialis Gallicani Bibliopolam], 1884).

 
Yefet b. ‘Eli on Daniel

David Samuel Margoliouth (ed.), A Commentary on the Book of Daniel by Yefet ibn Ali the Karaite (Oxford:
Anecdota Oxoniensia, 1889).

 
 
RABBANITE TEXTS IN ARABIC CHARACTERS
 
Saadia b. Yosef al-Fayyumi, The Book of Beliefs and Opinions:
Kitâb al-amânât waʻl-iʻtiqâdât, hrsg. von S. Landauer (Brill, 1880).
 
Bahya ibn Pakuda, The Duties of the Heart:
A.S. Yahuda, Al-hidāja ilā farāʾiḍ al-qulūb des Bachja ibn Jōsēf ibn Paqūda, aus Andalusien; im arabischen 

Urtext zum ersten Male nach der Oxforder und Pariser Handschrift sowie den Petersburger Fragmenten 

(Brill, 1912).
 
Solomon ibn Gabirol, Improvement of the Moral Qualities, ed. and trans. Stephen Wise (Columbia, 1901).
 
Moses ibn Ezra, Kitāb al-muḥāḍara wa-l-mudhākara, edición y traducción de Montserrat Abumalhan Mas, 

Madrid, 1985.
 
Judah Halevi, The Kuzari:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-muslim-who-wants-to-teach-the-arab-world-about-judaism/
 
Musa b. Maymun, Guide (Guidance) of the Perplexed, ed. Husayn Atay (Ankara, 1974)
http://sepehr.mohamadi.name/download/DelalatolHaerin.pdf
 
Ibn Kammuna
M. Perlman, Ibn Kammuna's Examination of the Three Faiths, Berkeley, CA: University of California 

Press, 1971.
 
 

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