The Dönme. Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
xx f acilitated matters in Turkey in general. Without his opening of doors, my research in that country would not have been very ...
xxi Historical Association, where we benefited from the keen comments of Eliza Kent. My understanding of the place of the Dönme ...
xxii My approach was also shaped by commentators and audiences at invited lectures in U.S. and European departments of history i ...
Acknowledgments xxiii A Note on Transcription Official modern Turkish orthography has been used in transcribing Ottoman and Turk ...
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The Conversion of Rabbi Shabbatai Tzevi We can trace the origins of the Dönme to a single event on a single day. On October 16 ...
Introduction Yahya Efendi, who is recognizable by his more simple white fur. The Kurdish Imperial Preacher Vani Mehmet Efendi si ...
Introduction him and returned, alienated, to normative Judaism. The German Jew- ish writer Glückel of Hameln, mother of twelve ...
Introduction of his conversion lay rather in the way he explained what he had done: conversion was a temporary punishment for ...
Introduction recognizing other believers with secret signs and passwords.^19 Shabbatai Tzevi’s movement was the second greates ...
Introduction in his theosophy. Thus one group of his followers, the Karakaş, believed that he had gathered the seventy souls t ...
Introduction planted with cypresses, as Muslim cemeteries were. Yet unlike Muslim tombstones, Dönme headstones were rarely top ...
Introduction The Dönme did not develop a culture of secrecy because it was a key to survival, or because they needed to avoid ...
Introduction Shabbatai Tzevi’s principles. The Karakaş became the most antinomian, eclectic sect, with the greatest investment ...
Introduction Scholem claims, incorrectly, but meaningfully, was located near a Bektaşi lodge,^43 became a major pilgrimage si ...
Introduction cient Persian sword (a symbol of the Sufis),^53 a long knife hanging on a wall, and a whip in a cellar room, pos ...
Introduction need for separate law courts.^57 This unexpected revelation of an unrecog- nized, alternate, autonomous space wa ...
Introduction dren, father, and brother. Veiling was required even around a husband’s brothers, a brother’s children. Accordin ...
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