The term Turkic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people including existing societies such as the Turkish, Azerbaijani, Chuvashes, Kazakhs, Tatars, Kyrgyz, Turkmens, Uyghurs, Uzbeks, Bashkirs, Qashqai, Gagauzs, Yakuts, Turkic Karaites, Krymchaks, Karakalpaks, Karachays, Balkars, Nogais and as well as past civilizations such as the Göktürks, Kumans, Kipchaks, Avars, Bulgars, Turgeshes, Khazars, Seljuk Turks, Ottoman Turks, Mamluks, Timurids and possibly Huns and the Xiongnu.

As such, the vast majority of Karaites believe in the resurrection of the dead.

Karaites absorbed certain aspects of Jewish sects such as Isawites ( Shi ' ism ), Malikites ( Sunnis ) and Yudghanites ( Sufis ), who were influenced by East-Islamic scholarship yet deferred to Ash ' ari when contemplating the sciences.

His followers were called Ananites and, like modern Karaites, do not believe the Rabbinic Jewish oral law ( such as the Mishnah ) to be divinely inspired.

Anan ben David, in direct contradiction of Karaites such as Daniel Al-Kumisi, had small respect for science as is often shown in his law-book.

Karaites were at one time a significant proportion of the Jewish population, In the early 21st century, it was estimated that there were somewhat more than 50, 000 Karaites worldwide, over 40, 000 of whom had made aliyah ( emigrated to Israel ) from Arab countries such as Egypt and Iraq.

After all, it was the Karaites who placed such absolute reliance on the Torah text.

Two Sephardi chief rabbis, Eliahu Bakshi-Doron and Ovadia Yosef encouraged such marriages, hoping it would help Karaites to assimilate into Orthodox Judaism.

For example, he studied attentively the conditions of the Karaites in Alexandria, and did not hesitate to praise them for the possession of the very virtues which the Rabbinites denied to them, such as generosity and liberality ( l. c.

A wide array of other groups such as Catholics, Karaites and Samaritans was also represented.

Most scholars and some Karaites maintain that it was founded at least in part by Anan ben David, whereas other Karaites believe that they are not the historical disciples of Anan ben David at all, and point out that many of their later sages ( such as Ya ' acov Al-Kirkisani ) argued that most of Anan's teachings were " derived from Rabbanite Lore ".

The reasoning beyond such austerity is that the Karaites interpreted the Torah verse, " You shall not ( Heb: bi ‘ er the pi ‘ el form of ba ‘ ar ) a fire in any of your dwellings on the day of Shabbat " to indicate that fire should not be left burning in a Jewish home on Shabbat, regardless of whether it was lit prior to, or during the Sabbath.

23: 40, which, according to some Jews such as Karaites, indicates that Ezra's scribes interpreted that verse as referring to building materials for the sukkah, not waving the four species.

The name " Crimean Karaites " or " Krymkaraylar " pertains only to several hundred members of the clerical families currently living in the Crimea and is a misnomer in reference to all other branches of the Karaims and Karaylar who have long been established in other parts of Europe, Crimea being only one such location.

From such, Karaites have come to consider the most logical understanding of the Hebrew word " Mamzer " to actually speak of a nation people.

Traditionally, Rabbinic Judaism has regarded the Karaites as Jewish, but with an incorrect philosophical understanding of the Torah.

Even the Karaites incorporated some of them into their prayer-book ; so that there is scarcely a synagogue in which Judah's songs are not sung in the course of the service.

In the times of the said princes lived Simeon ben Shetach, and Judah ben Tabbai, who flourished A. M. 3621, these two separated, the latter from the former, because he could not embrace his inventions which he formed out of his own brain ; and from him the Karaites sprung, who were first called the society or congregation of Judah ben Tabbai, which was afterwards changed into the name of Karaites.

However, at the same time Maimonides holds ( Hilkhot Mamrim 3: 3 ) that most of the Karaites and others who claim to deny the " oral teachings " are not to be held accountable for their errors in the law because they are led into error by their parents and are similar to a tinoq shenishbah ( a captive baby ), or to one who was forced.

They hasten to add that this opinion is not intended to insult the Karaites, but only to give individual Karaites the option of integrating into mainstream Judaism by way of conversion.

The interest which his commentaries present lies chiefly in the accumulation of material for the history of the differences between traditional Judaism and the Karaites ; for he enters into lengthy disputes with traditional rabbis, especially with Saadia, from whose commentaries on the Bible and polemical works, including some no longer in existence, he gives many extracts.

Meanwhile, Karaites considered as Jews employed in usury got the same restrictions as Rabbanites Jews In 1495 the Karaites and Rabbanites of Lithuania were expelled by the Grand Duke Alexander Jagiellon, but admitted into Poland by his brother King John Albert.

At the time of the traveler Benjamin of Tudela in the 12th century, Karaites were widely dispersed around the eastern Mediterranean, both in Islamic areas and the Byzantine Empire.

Hisdai ibn Shaprut cites Eldad in his letter to the king of the Khazars, and Eldad's halakot were used by both Rabbinites and Karaites as weapons in defense of their respective creeds.

Only one thing can be said that the Turkic blood in them is less than Karaites, although certain kinship with the peoples of both the Khazars can hardly be denied.

Mixtures of milk and meat are not prepared or eaten but are not banned either: Haymanot interpreted the verses Exodus 23: 19, Exodus 34: 26 and Deuteronomy 14: 21 literally " shalt not seethe a kid in its mother's milk " ( like the Karaites ).

23: 40, as do the Karaites.

This assertion was historically challenged by the Karaites, a movement that flourished in the medieval period, which retains several thousand followers today and maintains that only the Written Torah was revealed.

Philo's works became important to Medieval Christian scholars who leveraged the work of Karaites to lend credence to their claims that " these are the beliefs of Jews "-a technically correct, yet mendacious, attribution.

While there have been Jewish groups whose beliefs were claimed to be based on the written text of the Torah alone ( e. g., the Sadducees, and the Karaites ), most Jews believed in what they call the oral law.

Some European Karaites do not see themselves as part of the Jewish community at all, although most do.

Some Jews did not accept the written codification of the oral law at all ; known as Karaites, they comprised a significant portion of the world Jewish population in the 10th and 11th Centuries CE, and remain extant, though they currently number in the thousands.

Because of that, the 22nd day of the 7th month is not necessarily celebrated on the same date as 22 Tishrei in the ( conventional, Rabbinic ) Jewish calendar ( in 2010, Shemini Atzeret fell out on October 1 for Karaites, one day later than in the conventional Jewish calendar ).

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Karaites were the first Jewish Sect to subject Judaism to Mu ' tazilah.

Within the Jewish community, particularly in Egypt and Palestine, there existed a minority of Karaites.

( So says the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 ; the origin of the Karaites is not uncontroversial.

In the 10th century, the Karaites were believed to have comprised about 10 % of the world's Jewish population.

His main field of research was the Jewish communities and sects of Asia and Africa, including the Samaritans and Karaites.

Abraham Geiger posited a connection between the Karaites as a remnant of the Sadducees, the 1st-century Jewish sect that followed the Hebrew Bible literally and rejected the Pharisees ' notion of an Oral Torah even before it was written.

In one particular incidence, migration of Karaites from Istanbul to Crimea is documented following a fire in the Jewish quarter of Constantinople ( modern Istanbul ) in 1203 ( Tsoffar 2006 ).

The result was an eradication of the control of the Polish szlachta and their Jewish intermediaries, and the end of ecclesiastical jurisdiction for the Latin Rite Catholics ( as well as Karaites, and other arendators ) over the country.

Gordon is considered a Hakham, a religious leader of the Karaite Jewish communities, and until recently served on Universal Karaite Judaism's " Religious Council " ( which represents Israeli Karaites ), and on the Board of Directors of the ancient Karaite synagogue in Jerusalem.

" Nazi Racial Policy Towards the Karaites ”, Soviet Jewish Affairs 8, 2 ( 1978 ) pp. 36 – 44