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5. Galland, Istanbul,   1 :2 1 0– 11.
6. Today the town lies in Montenegro. The Kurdish boy redeemer who had also

led a threatening religious movement died of plague in the palace in Edirne in 1 675. His
movement had no lasting significance. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :435.


7   . Unfortunately, there is no trace of Shabbatai Tzevi’s tomb. Nathan of Gaza’s

tomb in Skopje, Macedonia, survived until the early twentieth century.



  1. Yehuda Liebes, Studies in Jewish Myth and Jewish Messianism, trans. Batya Stein
    (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1 993), 1 00– 101.
    9. Marc David Baer,The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Sec-
    ular Turks. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010 ).


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