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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910163125503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2003]; ©2003
• ISBN: 90-04-29426-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1,013 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten, , 0169-9423 ; ; 73
• Disciplina: 296.8/1
• Soggetti: Karaites; Karaites - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary material / Meira Poluack -- THE EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF KARAISM IN THE SIXTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES / Paul B. Fenton -- THE SCHOLARLY STUDY OF KARAISM IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES / Haggai Ben-Shammai -- KARAITE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS / Fred Astren -- THE ORIGINS OF THE KARAITES / Moshe Gil -- THE KARAITES AND THE SECOND TEMPLE SECTS / Yoram Erder -- ISLAMIC CONTEXTS OF MEDIEVAL KARAISM / Fred Astren -- THE KARAITES AS PORTRAYED IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC SOURCES / Camilla Adang -- KARAISM AND SUFISM / Paul B. Fenton -- THE MOURNERS OF ZION: THE KARAITES IN JERUSALEM IN THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES / Yoram Erder -- KARAITE COMMUNITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST DURING THE TENTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES / Elinoar Bareket -- KARAITE LEGAL DOCUMENTS / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger -- EARLY KARAITE FAMILY LAW / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger -- THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE KARAITES TO THE STUDY OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE / Geoffrey Khan -- THE USE OF RABBINIC SOURCES IN KARAITE WRITINGS / Ofra Tirosh-Becker -- MAJOR TRENDS IN KARAITE PHILOSOPHY AND POLEMICS IN THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES / Haggai Ben-Shammai -- MAJOR TRENDS IN KARAITE BIBLICAL EXEGESIS IN THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES / Meira Polliack -- THE KARAITES IN MODERN EGYPT / Joel ; Beinin -- FROM EGYPT TO ISRAEL: THE BIRTH OF A KARAITE ‘EDAH IN ISRAEL / Emanuela Trevisan Semi -- LIVING LIMINALITY: KARAITE JEWS NEGOTIATE IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES / Sumi Elaine Colligan -- MELODIC PATTERNS IN KARAITE MUSIC: PAST AND PRESENT / Rachel Kollender -- KARAITE HEBREW / Aharon Maman -- BYZANTINE KARAITE THOUGHT / Daniel J. Lasker -- KARAITE EXEGETICAL AND HALAKHIC LITERATURE IN BYZANTIUM AND TURKEY / Daniel Frank -- KARAITE PRAYER AND LITURGY / Daniel Frank -- THE KARAITE CALENDAR: SANCTIFICATION OF THE NEW MOON BY SIGHTING / Magdi Shamuel -- THE KARAITES IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE CRIMEA: AN OVERVIEW / Tapani Harviainen -- THE TURKIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES OF THE EAST EUROPEAN KARAITES / Dan Shapira -- BEGINNINGS OF THE KARAITE COMMUNITIES OF THE CRIMEA PRIOR TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY / Dan Shapira -- THE HISTORY OF THE CRIMEAN KARAITES DURING THE SIXTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES / Golda Akhiezer -- THE KARAITE COMMUNITIES OF CHUFUT-KALE AND MANGUP: HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE SETTLEMENTS / Mikhail Kizilov -- THE KARAITES OF THE CRIMEA THROUGH TRAVELERS’ EYES / Mikhail Kizilov -- THE KARAITES OF CZARIST RUSSIA, 1780–1918 / Philip E. Miller -- THE KARAITES IN CONTEMPORARY LITHUANIA AND THE FORMER USSR / Tapani Harviainen -- THE MUSICAL HERITAGE OF LITHUANIA’S KARAIMS / Karina Firkavičiūtė -- ABRAHAM FIRKOVICH / Tapani Harviainen -- A GUIDE TO COLLECTIONS OF KARAITE MANUSCRIPTS / David Sklare -- KARAITE PRESS AND PRINTING / Barry D. Walfish -- GENERAL INDEX / Paul B. Fenton.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.