فرقه قراییم و کلام اسلامی

muhammad kazem rahmati assistant professor, encyclopaedia islamica foundation, tehran, iranas one of the oldest jewish sects, |araism was founded in the middle of the 2nd century ad and later on, they were accepted as the mainstream of iranian jewish society. a remarkable feature of the |araism is that they were influenced by islamic theology as well as its intellectual transactions with mu`tazilism. this article surveys the formative history of |araism and delineates how they came under the influence of islamic theology. keywords: judaism, |araism, anan bin david, islamic theology, mutazilism.