Samau'al al-Maghribi, jewish revert 2 islam
The heart of his scholarly interests was Islamic-Jewish-Christian polemics, and he gave the scholarly world critical editions and translations of three significant Arabic texts. The first of them is an attack on the Jewish religion by a twelfth century Jewish convert to Islam, Samau'al al-Maghribi--whom Moshe sometimes affectionately called his "meshummad."
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