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Shukr Kuhayl I

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controlling the capital of San‘a’, who viewed his activities as a threat—there were many among his followers who did not accept his demise, and expected his imminent return. Among these were his sister and son, who did not mourn his death. They were soon enough rewarded in 1868 by the appearance of
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to live in poverty and exhort the community to repentance. "I come to warn you and to remind you of repentance and redemption," he is reported to have said when publicly announcing his mission on a Sabbath in May 1861.
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Klorman, Bat-Zion Eraqi (1989), "The messiah Shukr Kuḥayl II (1868–75) and his tithe (ma-aser): Ideology and practice as a means to hasten redemption",
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He was apparently a humble, ascetic and pious individual, wearing ragged clothes, and removing himself to live alone on
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were ripe as a result of political turmoil. Divorcing his wife, he took up the life of an
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The Jews of Yemen in the Nineteenth Century: A Portrait of a Messianic Community
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This biographical article about a person notable in connection with
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at that time believed the messianic claims of Shukr Kuhayl I.
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claimant of the 19th century. He initially revealed himself in
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Although Kuhayl was very shortly thereafter killed by local
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The Jewish Messiahs: From the Galilee to Crown Heights
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Hebrew
Yemenite
messianic
San‘a’
Messiah
Ottoman Yemen
itinerant preacher
Mount Tiyal
Isaiah
Jacob Saphir
Jerusalem
Jews of Yemen
Arabs
imam
Judah ben Shalom
Judaism portal
Jewish Messiah claimants


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New York
Jewish Quarterly Review
doi
10.2307/1454252
JSTOR
1454252
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Ottoman

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