Abū l-Faraj Hārūn ibn Faraj

Abū l-Faraj Hārūn ibn Faraj was a Karaean scholar.

According to the Karaite chronicler David al-Hītī (early 15th century), Abū l-Faraj Hārūn lived in Jerusalem in the first half of the 11th century . There he worked at the school founded by Yūsuf ibn Nūḥ , the direction of which he took over after his death. In Arabic he wrote several grammatical works on Hebrew , the most important being his al-Kitāb al-Muštamil ʿalā l-ʾUṣūl wa-l-Fuṣūl fī l-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya (Comprehensive book on the basic principles and special rules of the Hebrew language ), of which there is also a short version ( al-Kitāb al-Kāfī ).

literature

• Geoffrey Khan: ʼAbū al-Faraj Hārūn and the Early Karaite Grammatical Tradition. In: Journal of Jewish Studies. Volume 48, 1997, pp. 314-334.
• Geoffrey Khan: The Karaite Tradition of Hebrew Grammatical Thought in its Classical Form: A Critical Edition and English Translation of al-Kitāb al-Kāfī fī al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya by ʾAbū al-Faraj Hārūn Ibn al-Faraj. Studies in Semitic Languages ​​and Linguistics 37. Leiden u. a., Brill 2003, ISBN 90-04-13272-4
• Nadia Vidro: Verbal Morphology in the Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar Kitāb al-ʿUqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-ʿIbrāniyya. Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval 51 / Cambridge Genizah Studies Series 2. Leiden u. a., Brill 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-21424-8
• Nadia Vidro: A Medieval Karaite Pedagogical Grammar of Hebrew: A Critical Edition and English Translation of Kitāb al-Uqūd fī Taṣārīf al-Luġa al-Ibrāniyya. Études sur le Judaisme médiéval 62 / Cambridge Genizah Studies Series 6. Leiden u. a., Brill 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-26291-1