Cengiz Sisman

The Burden of Silence

Sabbatai Sevi and the Evolution of the Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes

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Produktbeschreibung

The Burden of Silence is the first comprehensive history of an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, Sabbateanism. Using Ottoman, Jewish, and European sources, Sisman shows how proponents of Sabbateanism, members of a crypto-Judeo-Islamic sect known as the Donme, were able to survive despite persecution from Ottoman authorities by internalizing the Kabbalistic principle of a "burden of silence" according to which believers keep their secret on pain of spiritual and material punishment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9780190244057
• ISBN-10: 0190244054
• Artikelnr.: 47863835

Autorenporträt

Cengiz Sisman is Professor of History at University of Houston, Clear Lake.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Tables and Illustrations
* Acknowledgments
* List of Abbreviations
* Notes on Transliteration
* Introduction
* Chapter I: Remapping a Messianic Movement in the Early Modern World
* Chapter II: The Rise and Fall of the Sabbatean Movement in the
Eurasian World
* Chapter III: From a Global Movement to an Ottoman Sect: The Birth of
a Crypto-Messianic Community
* Chapter IV: Authority, Authenticity, and Leadership: Failed Prophecy
and the Emergence of Post-Messianic Sects in the Ottoman Empire and
Eastern Europe
* Chapter V: Politics of Crypto and Hybrid Identities among the Jews,
Christians and Muslims
* Chapter VI: Religious Beliefs and Practices in Parallel Space and
Time
* Chapter VII: The Experience of Modernity: The Emergence of Orthodox,
Reformist and Liberal Dönmes
* Chapter VIII: From Empire to Nation-State: Resettlement in Modern
Turkey
* Conclusion: Passion for the Waiting
* Bibliography
* Index