Foreword

From Theosebia

From an early age, I was instilled with a strong sense of my diversely mixed European Heritage. Although I had a catholic education until middle-school, followed by exposure to secular and unitarian thought, I grew up with no sense of the displacement theology in the Christianities that surrounded me thanks to a still-present-though-fading sense of Israelite genealogy in my own family. Although an interest in my Hussar ancestors had started to grow, anti-Qaraite propaganda I discovered left me bereft. In my isolation I fell in love with the Quran from the moment I first opened it and my eyes fell upon the verse:

"Lo those who believe, those who are guided ...."

It was only the unconvincing Wahabi record of Muslim history and their fallacious criticism of the peaceful Sufis which would prevent me from ever embracing their at that time widespread brand of Islam. Undeterred from the Quran as a valuable guide I began my own investigation into the proto-Muslim Sabi-un and their increasingly significant connection to Judeo-Christian goups and learned a lot by attempting to graft my own tradition into this context. Eventually I was led back full circle to come face to face once more with my Khazar ancestor Kybr-Kahan. This time anti-Qaraite Propaganda did not deter me, and I embraced a heritage which my surviving nuclear family could not appreciate.

I feel that my journey has allowed me to discover the truely harmonious interaction which exists between the Abrahamic faiths which unnoticed by the impatient has been unable to prevent the miscommunication of ideas which has led to so much conflict. I hope through this research to show that my experience is not purely subjective, but can can be shared by others through an objective analysis of what I am sure must be the most relevant facts.