books.google.com - Egypt’s indigenous Jewish population comprised Arabic-speaking Rabbanite and Karaite Jews, some of whom had been in the country since the early Islamic era. The Jews expelled from Spain in 1492 took refuge in Egypt, and Sephardic immigrants augmented their numbers in the midnineteenth century....http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Dispersion_Of_Egyptian_Jewry.html?id=ENfjCk1IZBcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Dispersion Of Egyptian Jewry
