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Julien Robin Christian, « 7. The Judaism of the Ancient Kingdom of Ḥimyar in Arabia: A Discreet Conversion », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.qcbdg6
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1.0. Introduction Yemenite Judaism can be described as ‘rabbinic’ from the moment sufficient sources are available in the later Middle Ages. It had probably been so for many centuries. One notes, for example, the epistolary links between Yemen’s Jewish communities and Moses Maimonides (d. 1204 CE), who sent them his celebrated Epistle to Yemen. By contrast, the Judaism of Ḥimyar, the kingdom gradually extending its domination to the whole of ancient Yemen and even, between 350 and 570 CE, ove...