David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas

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David Abu Sulayman ibn Marwan al-Muqqamaṣ al-Raqqi (Arabic: داود إبن مروان المقمص translit.: Dawud ibn Marwan al-Muqammis; died c. 937) was a philosopher and controversialist, the author of the earliest known Jewish philosophical work of the Middle Ages. He was a native of Raqqa, Mesopotamia, hence his laqab. Abraham Harkavy derives his nisba from the Arabic root qammaṣ "to leap," interpreting it as referring to his asserted change of faith.^[1] The name is written אלקומסי al-qumisi in Masudi's Al-Tanbih (ed. De Goeje, p. 113), in a Karaite Jewish commentary to Leviticus and a manuscript copy of Yefet ben Ali's commentary to the same book,^[2] and is perhaps a derivative from the city of Qumis, Iran.^[3] Another Karaite bears the name Daniel al-Kumisi, and in al-Hiti's chronicle, this name is also spelled with a tsade (Jew. Quart. Rev. ix.432).