Sermon to the Karaites

This Hebrew sermon, written to defend the beliefs and practices of the early Karaite community in Jerusalem, appears to have emerged from the circle of Daniel al-Qūmisī, a prominent early Karaite thinker. The surviving text is replete with Arabic and Persian glosses, likely from a later copyist. The author encourages his Karaite audience to move to Jerusalem, or at least to send a permanent delegation there, to pray for the rebuilding of the city.