# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-ibn-merwan-al-mukkamas
# Generated: 2026-08-15T19:19:11.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-ibn-merwan-al-mukkamas"
name: "David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas"
slug: "david-ibn-merwan-al-mukkamas"
description: "David Abu Sulayman ibn Marwan al-Muqqamaṣ al-Raqqi was a philosopher and controversialist, the author of an early 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. The name is written אלקומסי al-qumisi in Masudi's Al-Tanbih, in a Karaite Jewish commentary to Leviticus and a manuscript copy of Yefet ben Ali's commentary to the same book, and is perhaps a derivative from the city of Qumis, Iran. Another Karaite bears the name Daniel al-Kumisi, and in al-Hiti's chronicle, this name is also spelled with a tsade."
tagline: "Medieval Judeo-Arabic philosopher and controversialist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg/330px-Guide_for_the_Perplexed_by_Maimonides.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "950"
deathDate: "937"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.44
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.876026666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_ibn_Merwan_al-Mukkamas"
    title: "David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%82%D9%85%D8%B5"
    title: "داود بن مروان المقمص"
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    title: "David ibn Merwan al-Muqammitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_al-Mukammas"
    title: "David al-Mukammas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_ibn_Merwan_al-Mukkamas"
    title: "David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%90%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%90%D7%91%D7%9F_%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%9E%D7%A5"
    title: "דאוד אבן מרואן אלמקמץ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump