Hebrew in Arabic Script—Qirqisānī’s View
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Haggai Ben-Shammai, Sheldon R. Brunswick, Hebrew in Arabic Script—Qirqisānī’s View, https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/F86KGYXS, https://www.zotero.org/groups/biblia_arabica/items/F86KGYXS, https://www.zotero.org/groups/538215/items/F86KGYXS, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/493612046, Ramat Gan, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1982, 115-26, Includes an English translation (based on the edition of Nemoy https://biblia-arabica.com/bibl/DLLAE32Q) of chap. 35 (“On Reading Any Non-Hebrew Script on the Sabbath Day”) in the fifth part of Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī’s Kitāb al-anwār wa-ʾl-marāqib, from which Ben-Shammai adduces testimony to the existence (and public reading) in the early-10th century of “at least one Judaeo-Arabic translation of the Bible (or, perhaps, the Pentateuch) ... and [which] might have been of Karaite origin” (p. 121).

Ben-Shammai, Haggai. “Hebrew in Arabic Script—Qirqisānī’s View.” In Studies in Judaica, Karaitica and Islamica, Presented to Leon Nemoy on His Eightieth Birthday, edited by Sheldon R. Brunswick, 115–26. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1982.