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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.
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Burden of Silence : Sabbatai Sevi and the Evolution of the Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes
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"What distinguishes Sisman's book is its original, comprehensive integration of all three primary types of sources on the subject: Jewish, Christian-European, and Muslim-Ottoman. Especially praiseworthy is the effort to collect all Ottoman sources on the subject, both the wellknown and the unknown, under one research roof, and further, to put them through an impressive historical analysis against the familiar sources used intensively in past and current research." DAAT: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah "The biggest contribution of the book is its objective to complement and correct the literature on Sevi written by Gershom Scholem and other scholars by putting the Dönme phenomenon within the context of Ottoman and Turkish history."--Israel Affairs "This book is very important not only for students of Sabbateanism but for a much wider circle of readers interested in Jewish mysticism, modern Judaism, the sociology of religious mysticism, Ottoman Islam as well as crypto-religious sects. This wide range is an indication of the importance of the book. The contents are fascinating, the author is very perceptive, and the book raises many issues for further thought and research. The book is also a lesson in the moral importance of respect for privacy on the part of scholars. Indeed, current political developments in Turkey may give this book added importance for the study of Turkish popular and political culture."--Religious Studies Review"Sisman's own research into different branches of the Sabbatean movement is substantiated and enriched by his personal encounters with surviving members of the sect Cengiz Sisman's historical account also reminds us how little has changed in our confused attitude to questions of religion and ethnicity."--Times Literary Supplement"This is the first comprehensive study of the history of a unique religious phenomenon: the development and survival, for three and a half centuries, of a sect of messianic Jews, who believed in the Messiah Sabbatai Sevi, and following him converted to Islam and lived as a secret group in Turkey. Sisman brilliantly analyzes the religious, social, and cultural background of their history and presents in this volume an intriguing picture of their beliefs and social integration in their surroundings. It critically yet nicely complements Gershom Scholem's magisterial work, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah." --Joseph Dan, Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah (Emeritus), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "By engaging with the available sources, Sisman elegantly constructs the history of one of the most mysterious communities, the Dönmes, within the broader Ottoman-Turkish and Eurasian contexts. This is a path-breaking study, which demonstrates how this enigmatic community survived through the early modern and modern times, and made significant contributions to Ottoman and Turkish modernizations along the way." --Heath W. Lowry, Ataturk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies (Emeritus), Princeton University "This book, based on years of research in various sources in multiple languages, is a highly significant study of the phenomenon of Sabbateanism over the centuries. Meticulously researched and contextualized, it makes a very important contribution to Ottoman, Turkish, and Jewish history." --Aron Rodrigue, Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture at Stanford University, "Sisman's own research into different branches of the Sabbatean movement is substantiated and enriched by his personal encounters with surviving members of the sect Cengiz Sisman's historical account also reminds us how little has changed in our confused attitude to questions of religion and ethnicity."--Times Literary Supplement "This is the first comprehensive study of the history of a unique religious phenomenon: the development and survival, for three and a half centuries, of a sect of messianic Jews, who believed in the Messiah Sabbatai Sevi, and following him converted to Islam and lived as a secret group in Turkey. Sisman brilliantly analyzes the religious, social, and cultural background of their history and presents in this volume an intriguing picture of their beliefs and social integration in their surroundings. It critically yet nicely complements Gershom Scholem's magisterial work, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah." --Joseph Dan, Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah (Emeritus), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "By engaging with the available sources, Sisman elegantly constructs the history of one of the most mysterious communities, the Dnmes, within the broader Ottoman-Turkish and Eurasian contexts. This is a path-breaking study, which demonstrates how this enigmatic community survived through the early modern and modern times, and made significant contributions to Ottoman and Turkish modernizations along the way." --Heath W. Lowry, Ataturk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies (Emeritus), Princeton University "This book, based on years of research in various sources in multiple languages, is a highly significant study of the phenomenon of Sabbateanism over the centuries. Meticulously researched and contextualized, it makes a very important contribution to Ottoman, Turkish, and Jewish history." --Aron Rodrigue, Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture at Stanford University, "This book is very important not only for students of Sabbateanism but for a much wider circle of readers interested in Jewish mysticism, modern Judaism, the sociology of religious mysticism, Ottoman Islam as well as crypto-religious sects. This wide range is an indication of the importance of the book. The contents are fascinating, the author is very perceptive, and the book raises many issues for further thought and research. The book is also a lesson in the moral importance of respect for privacy on the part of scholars. Indeed, current political developments in Turkey may give this book added importance for the study of Turkish popular and political culture."--Religious Studies Review "Sisman's own research into different branches of the Sabbatean movement is substantiated and enriched by his personal encounters with surviving members of the sect Cengiz Sisman's historical account also reminds us how little has changed in our confused attitude to questions of religion and ethnicity."--Times Literary Supplement "This is the first comprehensive study of the history of a unique religious phenomenon: the development and survival, for three and a half centuries, of a sect of messianic Jews, who believed in the Messiah Sabbatai Sevi, and following him converted to Islam and lived as a secret group in Turkey. Sisman brilliantly analyzes the religious, social, and cultural background of their history and presents in this volume an intriguing picture of their beliefs and social integration in their surroundings. It critically yet nicely complements Gershom Scholem's magisterial work, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah." --Joseph Dan, Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah (Emeritus), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "By engaging with the available sources, Sisman elegantly constructs the history of one of the most mysterious communities, the Dnmes, within the broader Ottoman-Turkish and Eurasian contexts. This is a path-breaking study, which demonstrates how this enigmatic community survived through the early modern and modern times, and made significant contributions to Ottoman and Turkish modernizations along the way." --Heath W. Lowry, Ataturk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies (Emeritus), Princeton University "This book, based on years of research in various sources in multiple languages, is a highly significant study of the phenomenon of Sabbateanism over the centuries. Meticulously researched and contextualized, it makes a very important contribution to Ottoman, Turkish, and Jewish history." --Aron Rodrigue, Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture at Stanford University, "What distinguishes Sisman's book is its original, comprehensive integration of all three primary types of sources on the subject: Jewish, Christian-European, and Muslim-Ottoman. Especially praiseworthy is the effort to collect all Ottoman sources on the subject, both the wellknown and the unknown, under one research roof, and further, to put them through an impressive historical analysis against the familiar sources used intensively in past and current research." DAAT: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah "The biggest contribution of the book is its objective to complement and correct the literature on Sevi written by Gershom Scholem and other scholars by putting the Dönme phenomenon within the context of Ottoman and Turkish history."--Israel Affairs "The book contextualizes this crypto-Judaic community in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic and enables a decolonial re-thinking of the Dönme history from an Ottoman-Turkish-Muslim point-view."--Reorient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies "This book is very important not only for students of Sabbateanism but for a much wider circle of readers interested in Jewish mysticism, modern Judaism, the sociology of religious mysticism, Ottoman Islam as well as crypto-religious sects. This wide range is an indication of the importance of the book. The contents are fascinating, the author is very perceptive, and the book raises many issues for further thought and research. The book is also a lesson in the moral importance of respect for privacy on the part of scholars. Indeed, current political developments in Turkey may give this book added importance for the study of Turkish popular and political culture."--Religious Studies Review "Sisman's own research into different branches of the Sabbatean movement is substantiated and enriched by his personal encounters with surviving members of the sect Cengiz Sisman's historical account also reminds us how little has changed in our confused attitude to questions of religion and ethnicity."--Times Literary Supplement "This is the first comprehensive study of the history of a unique religious phenomenon: the development and survival, for three and a half centuries, of a sect of messianic Jews, who believed in the Messiah Sabbatai Sevi, and following him converted to Islam and lived as a secret group in Turkey. Sisman brilliantly analyzes the religious, social, and cultural background of their history and presents in this volume an intriguing picture of their beliefs and social integration in their surroundings. It critically yet nicely complements Gershom Scholem's magisterial work, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah." --Joseph Dan, Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah (Emeritus), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "By engaging with the available sources, Sisman elegantly constructs the history of one of the most mysterious communities, the Dönmes, within the broader Ottoman-Turkish and Eurasian contexts. This is a path-breaking study, which demonstrates how this enigmatic community survived through the early modern and modern times, and made significant contributions to Ottoman and Turkish modernizations along the way." --Heath W. Lowry, Ataturk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies (Emeritus), Princeton University "This book, based on years of research in various sources in multiple languages, is a highly significant study of the phenomenon of Sabbateanism over the centuries. Meticulously researched and contextualized, it makes a very important contribution to Ottoman, Turkish, and Jewish history." --Aron Rodrigue, Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture at Stanford University, "This is the first comprehensive study of the history of a unique religious phenomenon: the development and survival, for three and a half centuries, of a sect of messianic Jews, who believed in the Messiah Sabbatai Sevi, and following him converted to Islam and lived as a secret group in Turkey. Sisman brilliantly analyzes the religious, social, and cultural background of their history and presents in this volume an intriguing picture of their beliefs and social integration in their surroundings. It critically yet nicely complements Gershom Scholem's magisterial work, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah." --Joseph Dan, Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah (Emeritus), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "By engaging with the available sources, Sisman elegantly constructs the history of one of the most mysterious communities, the Dönmes, within the broader Ottoman-Turkish and Eurasian contexts. This is a path-breaking study, which demonstrates how this enigmatic community survived through the early modern and modern times, and made significant contributions to Ottoman and Turkish modernizations along the way." --Heath W. Lowry, Ataturk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies (Emeritus), Princeton University "This book, based on years of research in various sources in multiple languages, is a highly significant study of the phenomenon of Sabbateanism over the centuries. Meticulously researched and contextualized, it makes a very important contribution to Ottoman, Turkish, and Jewish history." --Aron Rodrigue, Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture at Stanford University, "What distinguishes Sisman's book is its original, comprehensive integration of all three primary types of sources on the subject: Jewish, Christian-European, and Muslim-Ottoman. Especially praiseworthy is the effort to collect all Ottoman sources on the subject, both the wellknown and the unknown, under one research roof, and further, to put them through an impressive historical analysis against the familiar sources used intensively in past and currentresearch." DAAT: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah"The biggest contribution of the book is its objective to complement and correct the literature on Sevi written by Gershom Scholem and other scholars by putting the Dönme phenomenon within the context of Ottoman and Turkish history."--Israel Affairs"The book contextualizes this crypto-Judaic community in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic and enables a decolonial re-thinking of the Dönme history from an Ottoman-Turkish-Muslim point-view."--Reorient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies"This book is very important not only for students of Sabbateanism but for a much wider circle of readers interested in Jewish mysticism, modern Judaism, the sociology of religious mysticism, Ottoman Islam as well as crypto-religious sects. This wide range is an indication of the importance of the book. The contents are fascinating, the author is very perceptive, and the book raises many issues for further thought and research. The book is also a lesson in the moral importance of respect for privacy on the part of scholars. Indeed, current political developments in Turkey may give this book added importance for the study of Turkish popular and political culture."--Religious Studies Review"Sisman's own research into different branches of the Sabbatean movement is substantiated and enriched by his personal encounters with surviving members of the sect Cengiz Sisman's historical account also reminds us how little has changed in our confused attitude to questions of religion and ethnicity."--Times Literary Supplement"This is the first comprehensive study of the history of a unique religious phenomenon: the development and survival, for three and a half centuries, of a sect of messianic Jews, who believed in the Messiah Sabbatai Sevi, and following him converted to Islam and lived as a secret group in Turkey. Sisman brilliantly analyzes the religious, social, and cultural background of their history and presents in this volume an intriguing picture of their beliefs andsocial integration in their surroundings. It critically yet nicely complements Gershom Scholem's magisterial work, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah." --Joseph Dan, Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah(Emeritus), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem"By engaging with the available sources, Sisman elegantly constructs the history of one of the most mysterious communities, the Dönmes, within the broader Ottoman-Turkish and Eurasian contexts. This is a path-breaking study, which demonstrates how this enigmatic community survived through the early modern and modern times, and made significant contributions to Ottoman and Turkish modernizations along the way." --Heath W. Lowry, Ataturk Professor of Ottomanand Modern Turkish Studies (Emeritus), Princeton University"This book, based on years of research in various sources in multiple languages, is a highly significant study of the phenomenon of Sabbateanism over the centuries. Meticulously researched and contextualized, it makes a very important contribution to Ottoman, Turkish, and Jewish history." --Aron Rodrigue, Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture at Stanford University, "What distinguishes Sisman's book is its original, comprehensive integration of all three primary types of sources on the subject: Jewish, Christian-European, and Muslim-Ottoman. Especially praiseworthy is the effort to collect all Ottoman sources on the subject, both the wellknown and the unknown, under one research roof, and further, to put them through an impressive historical analysis against the familiar sources used intensively in past and current research." DAAT: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy & Kabbalah "The biggest contribution of the book is its objective to complement and correct the literature on Sevi written by Gershom Scholem and other scholars by putting the Dnme phenomenon within the context of Ottoman and Turkish history."--Israel Affairs "The book contextualizes this crypto-Judaic community in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic and enables a decolonial re-thinking of the Dnme history from an Ottoman-Turkish-Muslim point-view."--Reorient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies "This book is very important not only for students of Sabbateanism but for a much wider circle of readers interested in Jewish mysticism, modern Judaism, the sociology of religious mysticism, Ottoman Islam as well as crypto-religious sects. This wide range is an indication of the importance of the book. The contents are fascinating, the author is very perceptive, and the book raises many issues for further thought and research. The book is also a lesson in the moral importance of respect for privacy on the part of scholars. Indeed, current political developments in Turkey may give this book added importance for the study of Turkish popular and political culture."--Religious Studies Review "Sisman's own research into different branches of the Sabbatean movement is substantiated and enriched by his personal encounters with surviving members of the sect Cengiz Sisman's historical account also reminds us how little has changed in our confused attitude to questions of religion and ethnicity."--Times Literary Supplement "This is the first comprehensive study of the history of a unique religious phenomenon: the development and survival, for three and a half centuries, of a sect of messianic Jews, who believed in the Messiah Sabbatai Sevi, and following him converted to Islam and lived as a secret group in Turkey. Sisman brilliantly analyzes the religious, social, and cultural background of their history and presents in this volume an intriguing picture of their beliefs and social integration in their surroundings. It critically yet nicely complements Gershom Scholem's magisterial work, Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah." --Joseph Dan, Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah (Emeritus), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "By engaging with the available sources, Sisman elegantly constructs the history of one of the most mysterious communities, the Dnmes, within the broader Ottoman-Turkish and Eurasian contexts. This is a path-breaking study, which demonstrates how this enigmatic community survived through the early modern and modern times, and made significant contributions to Ottoman and Turkish modernizations along the way." --Heath W. Lowry, Ataturk Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies (Emeritus), Princeton University "This book, based on years of research in various sources in multiple languages, is a highly significant study of the phenomenon of Sabbateanism over the centuries. Meticulously researched and contextualized, it makes a very important contribution to Ottoman, Turkish, and Jewish history." --Aron Rodrigue, Charles Michael Professor in Jewish History and Culture at Stanford University
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2015
Topic
Theology, Judaism / History, Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, General, Jewish
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2014-047147
Dewey Decimal
296.8/2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Religion, History
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