Hasid Mizrajim
Haside Mizrajim ( Hebrew חֲסִידֵי מִצְרַיִם ḥǎsîdê mizrajim , German for 'The Pious Egyptians' ) were Jewish scholars of the 13th and 14th centuries in Egypt who, impressed by Sufism , founded a mystical movement in Judaism, Egyptian Hasidism . Unlike the Hasids of Ashkenaz , they demonstrably referred to themselves as Hasidim ( Hebrew חֲסִידֵי מִצְרַיִם ḥǎsîdîm ) and its movement as Hasidism ( Hebrew חֲסִידוּת ḥǎsîdût ).
The most important representatives of Egyptian Hasidism are the Maimonides son Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon (1186-1237), his father-in-law Chananel ben Samuel (approx. 1180-1250), Abraham's son Obadja ben Maimon (1228-1265) and, as the last in of the dynasty, David ben Jehoshua ben Maimon (1335-1415).
literature
- Paul B. Fenton: The Post-Maimonidean Schools of Exegesis in the East. In: Magne Sæbø (ed.): Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation. Vol. 1/2: The Middle Ages. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-525-53507-4 , pp. 433-455.
- Paul B. Fenton: Jewish and Islamic Mysticism. Translated from the English by Axel Monte. Books Ex Oriente, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-9813130-3-1 .
- Elisha Russ-Fishbane: Hasid, Hasidism II. C. Medieval Judaism . In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Volume 11, de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-031328-4 , Sp. 359–365.
- Elisha Russ-Fishbane: Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt. A Study of Abraham Maimonides and His Times , Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-872876-4 .
supporting documents
- ↑ Elisha Russ-Fishbane: Hasid, Hasidism II. C. Medieval Judaism . In: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Volume 11, de Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-031328-4 , Sp. 359–365 (here: Sp. 362).