Author
Date of compositionc. 927
Text languageArabic
Title
English
AUTBook of Lights and Watchtowers
Arabic
AUTكتاب الأنوار والمراقب
Arabic
AUTKitāb al-anwār wa-l-marāqib
Arabic
AUTכתאב אלאנואר ואלמראקב
Attestations in Manuscripts
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 489 (fols. 1r–183v)
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Arab.-Yevr. 158 (fols. 1r–24v)
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 832.2 (fols. 10r–31v, fols. 37r–44v, fols. 110r–110v, fols. 125r–125v, fols. 150r–158v)
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 756.1 (fols. 1r–4v, fols. 6r–28v)
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Yevr.-Arab. I 832.1 (fols. 1r–9v, fols. 32r–36v, fols. 45r–109v, fols. 111r–124v, fols. 126r–149v)
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Arab.-Yevr. 79 (fols. 1r–19v)
St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia, Arab.-Yevr. 19 (fols. 1r–46v)
Bibliography
1
Leon Nemoy, ed., Kitāb al-Anwār wal-Marāqib: Code of Karaite Law, 5 vols. (New York: Alexander Kohut Memorial Foundation, 1939-1943).
2
Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī, الأنوار والمراقب: كتاب الشرائع الكبير, ed. Leon Nemoy et al., 7 vols., Dirāsāt Yahūdiyya wa-Isrāʾīliyya 11 (Cairo: al-Baḥr al-Aḥmar, 2024).
Credits
Project:
MAJLIS: The Transformation of Jewish Literature in Arabic in the Islamicate World
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Jonathan Beise, Jasper Bernhofer, Maurizio Boehm, Lukas Froschmeier, Annabelle Fuchs, Nathan P. Gibson, Lea Gzella, Polina Lakteikina, Sara Mattutat, Maximilian de Molière, Lea Poralla, Maxim Roozen, Gregor Schwarb, Masoumeh Seydi, Jakob Shub-Oseledchik, Ezra Stadler, Peter Tarras, Nadine Urbiczek
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File Reused in the Project: "MAJLIS: The Transformation of Jewish Literature in Arabic in the Islamicate World"
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Suggested Citation
Book of Lights and Watchtowers (Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq b. Samʿawayh al-Qirqisānī). In Digital Handbook of Jewish Authors Writing in Arabic, edited by Ronny Vollandt et. al. Accessed 15 September 2026, https://jalit.org/work/18
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