Karaite Judaism : a Guide to Its History

Karaism is defined as a Jewish religious movement of a scripturalist and messianic nature, which crystallized in the second half of the ninth century in Persia/Iraq and Palestine, and reached its peak from the 10th to the 11th centuries when its center had migrated west and north. Most of today's Karaites who define themselves as Jews, some 20,000,