2003/01/01 · 108 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Ancient history #Archaeology #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Classics #Ethnology #Eurasian Exchange Networks #Geography #History #Jewish history #Jewish studies #Judaism #Law #Linguistics and Cultural Studies #Middle Ages #Middle East #Palestine #Political science #Scholarship
paper · doi:10.1163/9789004294264
openalex publication_date 2003/01/01 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
Karaism is a Jewish religious movement of a scripturalist and messianic nature, which emerged in the Middle Ages in the areas of Persia-Iraq and Palestine and has maintained its unique and varied forms of identity and existence until the present day, undergoing resurgent cycles of creativity, within its major geographical centres of the Middle-East, Byzantium-Turkey, the Crimea and Eastern Europe. This Guide to Karaite Studies contains thirty-seven chapters which cover all the main areas of medieval and modern Karaite history and literature, including geographical and chronological subdivisions, and special sections devoted to the history of research, manuscripts and printing, as well as detailed bibliographies, index and illustrations. The substantial volume reflects the current state of scholarship in this rapidly growing sub-field of Jewish Studies, as analysed by an international team of experts and taught in various universities throughout Europe, Israel and the United States.