Research Catalog

Title

The Jews of Yemen in the nineteenth century : a portrait of a Messianic community / by Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman.

Author

Klorman, Bat-Zion Eraqi.

Publication

Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1993.

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Details

Description

viii, 209 p. : map; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Brill's series in Jewish studies, 0926-2261 ; vol. 6

Uniform Title

Brill's series in Jewish studies vol. 6.

Subjects

• History
• Judaism > Relations > Islam
• Islam > Relations > Judaism
• Mahdism > Influence
• Jewish messianic movements > History
• Judaism > Yemen > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-200) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Map of Yemen -- 1. Introduction -- A. Themes of Jewish Messianism -- B. Political and Socio-Religious Conditions of Nineteenth-Century Yemen -- 2. Pre-Nineteenth Century Messianic Movements: Early Manifestations of Later Characteristics -- A. Twelfth Century Muslim and Jewish Messianic Movements -- 1. The Mahdist Idea in Islam -- 2. The Mahdist Movement of Ali ibn Mahdi and His Son Abd al-Nabi ibn Mahdi (1143-73) -- 3. The Jewish Messianic Movement (1172) -- B. The Messiah of Bayhan (ca. 1500) -- C. The Sabbatian Movement (1666-7) -- 1. Messianic Expectations Prior to the Sabbatian Movement -- 2. The Progress of the Movement -- 3. Gey hizzayon and Its Projection of Sabbatian Anticipations -- 4. The Spiritual Leadership and the Sabbatian Events -- 3. Muslim and Jewish Messianism: Cultural Interference -- A. Mahdist Movements in the Nineteenth Century -- 1. The Movement of Faqih Said (1840) -- 2. The Movement of Sharif Ismail (1846) --^
• B. The Integration of Mahdist Traditions in Jewish Apocalyptic Writings -- 1. General Figures of Muslim Eschatology -- 2. Local Figures of Muslim Eschatology -- 3. The Role of Mecca -- 4. Apocalyptical Interpretation of Actual Events -- 5. Muslim Apocalyptical Figures and the Jewish Messiahs -- 6. Literary Adaptations of Segments of Muslim Apocalyptical Traditions -- 4. Messianic Motifs In Later Rabbinic Thought -- A. Dominant Themes in Rabbinic Writings -- B. The Book of Thought by Mansura and Its Articulation of Messianic Hopes -- C. The Attitude of the Rabbis to Searches for the Ten Lost Tribes -- 5. Messianic Movements in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century -- A. Shukr Kuhayl I (1861-5) -- 1. From Messianic Herald to Messianic Contender -- 2. The Stand of the Rabbis of Sana and the Extent of the Movement -- 3. Muslim Followers of Shukr Kuhayl I -- B. Shukr Kuhayl II (1868-75) -- 1. Shukr Kuhayl IIs Ideology of Repentance and the Tithe (Maaser) --^
• 2. The Practical Use of the Maaser -- 3. Shukr Kuhayl IIs Organization -- 4. Shukr Kuhayl IIs Arguments for His Messiahship -- 5. The Stand of Sana and Its Rabbinical Leadership -- 6. The Popularity of Shukr Kuhyal II -- 7. Muslim Supporters of Shukr Kuhayl II -- 8. Shukr Kuhayl IIs Fall -- C. Yosef Abdallah (1888-93) -- 6. Messianic Expressions in the Waves of Migration from Yemen to Palestine (1881-1914) -- A. The Immigration of 1881-2 -- B. The Immigration from Northern Yemen 1906-11 -- C. Yavneelis Immigration 1911-4 -- 7. Conclusions.

ISBN

9004096841 (cloth)

LCCN

^^^93002850^

OCLC

• 27430631
• SCSB-10510584

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library