Sidi ibn Ibrahim ibn Hasdai al-Tarās ( jrb, סידי בן אברהם בן חסדאי אלתראס, ar, سيدي بن ابراهيم بن حدادي التاراس), also known as Sidi ibn al-Tarās, was an 11th-century
Sephardic Karaite
Karaite or Qaraite may refer to:
* Karaite Judaism, a Jewish religious movement that rejects the Talmud
** Crimean Karaites, an ethnic group derived from Turkic-speaking adherents of Karaite Judaism in Eastern Europe
*** Karaim language, Turkic ...
scholar.
Born to the
al-Tarās family in
Kingdom of Castile
The Kingdom of Castile (; es, Reino de Castilla, la, Regnum Castellae) was a large and powerful state on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. Its name comes from the host of castles constructed in the region. It began in the 9th centu ...
around 1065. Several sources written by
Joseph ben Tzaddik
Joseph ben Tzaddik was a rabbi in Arevalo, in Spain, during the fifteenth century. He was the author of a treatise entitled ''Zeker Ẓaddiḳ'', on ritual matters, in fifty chapters, which by 1900 was still in manuscript. The last chapter contai ...
and
Abraham ibn Daud
Abraham ibn Daud ( he, אַבְרָהָם בֵּן דָּוִד הַלֵּוִי אִבְּן דָּאוּד; ar, ابراهيم بن داود) was a Spanish-Jewish astronomer, historian, and philosopher; born at Córdoba, Spain about 1110; ...
state that in his early years, al-Taras became a disciple of the Karaite scholar
Jeshua ben Judah. He eventually returned to the Iberian Peninsula, settling in
al-Andalus
Al-Andalus translit. ; an, al-Andalus; ast, al-Ándalus; eu, al-Andalus; ber, ⴰⵏⴷⴰⵍⵓⵙ, label= Berber, translit=Andalus; ca, al-Àndalus; gl, al-Andalus; oc, Al Andalús; pt, al-Ândalus; es, al-Ándalus () was the Mus ...
, where he attempted to gain Karaite followers amongst the
Rabbanites
Rabbinic Judaism ( he, יהדות רבנית, Yahadut Rabanit), also called Rabbinism, Rabbinicism, or Judaism espoused by the Rabbanites, has been the mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codification of the Babylonian ...
. This made al-Taras a highly controversial figure, leading to the expulsion of the Karaites in Castile by
Alfonso VI
Alphons (Latinized ''Alphonsus'', ''Adelphonsus'', or ''Adefonsus'') is a male given name recorded from the 8th century ( Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic kingdom in the Iberian peninsu ...
, who was pressured by local Rabbinite communities to do so.
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References
Karaite Jews
11th-century Sephardi Jews