Karimi

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The Karimi (Crimeans) were once famous as merchants who controlled the trade routes through Crimea (Persian: Karima) where they were attracted to the religion of Zera Yisrael descendants of certain Persian Jews called Crimean Karaites isolated by the Babylonian exile who rejected the Babylonian Talmud but accepted Jesus. The Crimeans became the first Karaitizers with whom their name became synonymous.