Kainukaa, driven out from Arabia by Mahomet, [76] f.
Kairuan, center of Judaism and science, [146], [210].
school of, [248] ff.
Kaliri. See [Eleazar ben Kalir].
Kalonymos, learned Jew, [143].
Kalonymos, Italian Jew in the retinue of Otto II, [243].
Kalonymos ben Todros, head of the congregation of Narbonne, [392].
Kameoth. See [Cameos].
Kamus, fortress in Chaibar, [82].
Karaism, [127]–[37].
alterations made by, [131].
causes discord in the Talmudic schools, [155] ff.
character of, [133].
divisions of, [136], [157].
effect of, on the authority of the exilarch, [137].
emphasizes freedom of inquiry, [157].
explanation of name of, [130].
gives impetus to the study of the Bible, [133], [136].
inconsistencies of, [131], [133], [159], [443].
increases the religious duties, [131].
instability of, [133].
marriage laws of, [132], [158] f.
principal dogma of, [157].
regulations of, about festivals, [131], [158] f.
spread of, [182], [207].
Karaites:
asceticism of, [181] f., [204], [437].
controversies of, with the Rabbanites, [134], [182], [203], [362] f.
cultivate Biblical philology and exegesis, [180] f., [204], [206].
in Cairo, [444].
in Crimea, [435].
in Palestine, [607].
narrow-mindedness of, [206].
polemical writings of, [191].
productive in Biblical literature, [136].
proselytism of, [203].
rigorous observance of the Sabbath, [132].
severity and gloominess of religious life of, [132] f.
superficiality of, [204], [206].