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Mourad Farag Lichaa
מוראד פרג׳1867, Cairo, Egypt · died 9 September 1956, Cairo, Egypt
Alon's wife's father's father's father's father's father's half-brother's sonLichaaAlso written: Mourad / Murad Farag; Arabic مراد فرجRead the story
What we know
Karaite lawyer, poet and linguist; about thirty books in Arabic and Hebrew; legal adviser to the Khedive Abbas Hilmi.
From our research
- Karaite lawyer, poet, journalist and linguist; wrote some 30 books in Arabic and Hebrew, among them the five-volume Diwan Murad (1912-1929)
- Born into a family of goldsmiths, largely self-taught; served the Karaite religious court and was legal adviser to Khedive Abbas Hilmi
- First cousin of Olivia's great-great-grandfather Lichaa Isaac Elichaa
Sources
- Les Fleurs de l'Orient, "Karaite Families" database (farhi.org), compiled from David Elichaa (1926-2007)
- Hebrew Wikipedia: מוראד פרג׳