The Dönme. Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks

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 Notes to Pages 6–9



  1. Scholem, “Sprouting of the Horn of the Son of David,” 385.

  2. Dönmeler: Hunyos, Kavayeros, Sazan (Istanbul: Şems Matbaası, 1919 ),
    15 ; Avram Galanté, Nouveaux documents sur Sabbetaï Sevi: Organisation et us et
    coutumes de ses adeptes (Istanbul: Société anonyme de papeterie et d’imprimerie
    [Fratelli Haim]), 1935 ), 67 ; and Nicholas P. Stavroulakis, Salonica: Jews and Der-
    vishes (Athens: Talos Press, 1993 ).

  3. On how an emerging religion elaborates a distinct identity through fu-
    nerary rites, see Leor Halevi, Muhammad’s Grave: Death Rites and the Making of
    Islamic Society (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007 ), 4.

  4. Kurt H. Wolff, The Sociology of Georg Simmel (Glencoe, IL: Free Press,
    1950 ), 330 , quoted in Janet Liebman Jacobs, Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the
    Crypto-Jews (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002 ), 21.

  5. Michael Taussig, Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative
    (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999 ).

  6. Elliot Wolfson, “Introduction,” in Rending the Veil: Concealment and
    Secrecy in the History of Religions, ed. id. (New York: Seven Bridges Press,
    1998 ), 3.

  7. Margaret Jacob, Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopoli-
    tanism in Early Modern Europe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
    2006 ), 98 , 100.

  8. Yitzhak Ben-Tzevi, “Preface,” Sabbatean Hymnal (in Hebrew), trans.
    M. Attias, annotated by Gershom Scholem (Tel Aviv: n.p., 1947 ), trans. into
    English in Harris Lenowitz, “Leaving Turkey: The Dönme Comes to Poland,”
    Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 8 ( 2003 ): 69 – 70.

  9. Lenowitz, Jewish Messiahs, 4. For comparison, the twelfth-century Kurd-
    ish Jewish messiah David Alroy of Diyarbekir was either executed by the Seljuk
    governor or killed on his behalf by Jews. Ibid., 81 – 91.

  10. See Jacobs, Hidden Heritage, chap. 1.

  11. Lucette Valensi, “Conversion, intégration, exclusion: Les Sabbateens dans
    l’empire ottoman et en Turquie,” Dimensioni e problemi della ricerca storica 2
    ( 1996 ): 175.

  12. Galanté, Nouveaux documents sur Sabbetaï Sevi, 60 ; Scholem, “Doenmeh
    (Dönme),” 149.

  13. Gershom Scholem, “Barukhya, rosh ha-Shabtaim be-Saloniki,” Zion 6
    ( 1941 ): 143 – 47.

  14. Paul Fenton, “Shabbatay Sebi and His Muslim Contemporary Muham-
    mad an-Niyazi,” in Approaches to Judaism in Medieval Times, ed. David Blumen-
    thal (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988 ), 3 : 84.

  15. Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı, “Niyâzî,” in İslâm Ansiklopedisi (Istanbul: Maarif
    Matbaası, 1940 – 86 ), vol. 9 ( 1960 ): 305 – 7 ; Baha Dogˇramacı, Niyazi-yi Mısrî:

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