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Karaism
(7,177 words)
Karaism (Heb.
qaraʾut), the form of Judaism which claims to adhere to a more literal interpretation of the Bible (
miqraʾ) than that of the Rabbanites, the exponents of Rabbinic Judaism, and which rejects the institution of Jewish Oral Law as codified in the Mishna and Talmud, had its origins and greatest intellectual accomplishments in the Islamic world. It emerged in Iran, Iraq, and the Land of Israel in the late eighth and ninth centuries, and it had a Golden Age in tenth- and eleventh-century Jerusalem. During …
Date:
2015-09-03
