Skip to content
ZAKHORIUM
PTEN

Karaite author

Daniel ben Moshe al-Qumisi

Active

ninth century

A ninth-century Karaite author who urged his readers to remember Jerusalem and to follow the example of Christian and Muslim pilgrims.

What the sources say

Each block is a sourced statement. Click the number to see the cited page.

1 statements

The Karaite writer Daniel ben Moshe al-Qumisi, in the ninth century, urged his readers to remember Jerusalem and to follow the example of the Christians and Muslims flocking to the city as pilgrims. In the Fatimid period, Jews from Egypt, around the Mediterranean and indeed from Northern Europe went to great trouble to travel to Jerusalem for the annual Sukkot pilgrimage.