ʿAlī b. Sulaymān al-Muqaddasī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Goldstein, Miriam
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ʿAlī b. Sulaymān al-Muqaddasī (fl. late fifth/eleventh and early sixth/twelfth centuries) was a Karaite-that is, he subscribed to a rationalist stream of Judaism that began to develop in the third/ninth century. Karaites objected to the absolute authority of the Jewish academies of Babylonia and to absolute reliance on the Talmud. Ibn Sulaymān was also one of the final generation of the scholars known as the "Mourners of Zion," who lived in Jerusalem in the fourth/tenth and fifth/eleventh centuries. Ibn Sulaymān was apparently born