Tradition and the sacred text from Karaists and Quranists perspective

Author:
Marzie Shafi`i
Level:
Master
Subject(s):
Abrahamic Religions
Language:
Farsi
Faculty:
Faculty of Religions
Year:
2016
Publisher:
URD Press
Supervisor(s):
Hossein Soleimani
Advisor(s):
Mahdi Mehrizi

Scripture and tradition have high position in Islam and Judaism. Jewish tradition is a verbal tradition which is given to Moses at Mount Sinai and is preserved by Jewish scholars, and finally together with rabbis` edicts, is written as Talmud. Rabbinic Jewish often refers to Talmud instead of the Bible. In 8th century appeared a group called Karaism in Judaism which denied Jewish tradition and sufficed purely to the Scripture. In 19th century developed a group, between Muslims in Egypt called Quranism, who denied Islamic Hadiths and sufficed just to the Quran. The purpose of this thesis is to find out whether these two group among Muslims and Jews had same origins and basics What are the similarities and differences between them? Extreme literalism of Karaism and Quranism had some consequences. These two groups inclined to literal interpretation of Scripture which caused the expansion of law in Karaism, but caused conversely in Quranism because they tended to more felixible forms of edicts.