Here is Wolf's account of Moroccan-born religious revivalist
Rabbi Joseph Maimon (1741-1822) who revitalized religious life in Bokhara when he arrived there in 1793 and discovered that the Jews were ignorant of their religion. The story is reminiscent of the better-known
R. Chizkiya Mediniwho revitalized the Rabbanite Jewish community in Crimea in the 1860s.
Wolf includes something which is less-than-flattering. It's hard to square it with what would seem to make sense about the man. So I'll assume it's a mistake, but this is how it was reported only ten years after he died, in 1832.
See
here for something about R. Medini, the Sdei Chemed.
