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Judah ha-Ma‘ārāvi
12th Century
Little is known about the life of Judah ha-Ma‘ārāvi, a Karaite. He owned a bakery in Cairo at the address “Roofed Passage Ibn Ayyūb” in the first quarter of the twelfth century, and he was likely from Tripoli, Libya.
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Letter to His Brother-in-Law, Faḍl ibn Khalaf
Judah ha-Ma‘ārāvi
Writing in around 1113, a Karaite Jew begs his brother-in-law in Alexandria to urge his wife to return home, and if she will not, to divorce him.