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Karaite Judaism [electronic resource] : a guide to its history and literary sources / edited by Meira Polliack

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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
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1 online resource (xxxi, 981 p.)
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Polliack, Meira
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Contents
European discovery of Karaism in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Scholarly study of Karaism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Karaite historiography and historical consciousness / Origins of the Karaites / Karaites and the Second Temple sects / Islamic contexts of medieval Karaism / Karaites as portrayed in medieval Islamic sources / Karaism and Sufism / Mourners of Zion: the Karaites in Jerusalem of the tenth and eleventh centuries / Karaite communities in the Middle East during the tenth to fifteenth centuries / Karaite legal documents / Early Karaite family law / Contribution of the Karaites to the study of the Hebrew Language / Use of rabbinic sources in Karaite writings / Major trends in Karaite philosophy and polemics in the tenth and eleventh centuries / Major trends in Karaite biblical exegesis in the tenth and eleventh centuries / Karaites in modern Egypt / From Egypt to Israel: the birth of a Karaite ʻEdah in Israel / Living liminality: Karaite Jews negotiate identity and community in Israel and the United States / Melodic patterns in Karaite music: past and present / Karaite Hebrew / Byzantine Karaite thought / Karaite exegetical and halakhical literature in Byzantium and Turkey / Karaite prayer and liturgy / Karaite calendar: sanctification of the new moon by sighting / Karaites in Eastern Europe and the Crimea: an overview / Turkic languages and literatures of the East European Karaites / Beginnings of the Karaite communities of the Crimea prior to the sixteenth century / History of the Crimean Karaites during the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries / Karaite communities of Chufut--Kale and Mangup: history and topography of the settlements / Karaites of the Crimea through travelers' eyes / Karaites of Czarist Russia, 1780-1918 / Karaites in contemporary Lithuania and the former USSR / Musical heritage of Lithuania's Karaims / Abraham Firkovich / Guide to collections of Karaite manuscripts / Karaite press and printing / Paul Fenton -- Haggai Ben-Shammai -- Fred Astren -- Moshe Gil -- Yoram Erder -- Fred Astren -- Camilla Adang -- Paul Fenton -- Yoram Erder -- Elinoar Bareket -- Judith Olszowy-Schlanger -- Judith Olszowy-Schlanger -- Geoffrey Khan -- Ofra Tirosh-Becker -- Haggai Ben-Shammai -- Meira Polliack -- Joel Beinin -- Emanuela Trevisan Semi -- Sumi Colligan -- Rachel Kollender -- Aharon Maman -- Daniel Lasker -- Daniel Frank -- Daniel Frank -- Magdi Shamuel -- Tapani Harviainen -- Dan Shapira -- Dan Shapira -- Golda Akhiezer -- Mikhail Kizilov -- Mikhail Kizilov -- Philip Miller -- Tapani Harviainen -- Karina Firkavic̦iūtė -- Tapani Harviainen -- David Sklare -- Barry D. Walfish.
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9789004294264 (electronic book)
9004122516 (alk. paper)
9789004122512 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 933-958) and index.
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