An edition of The burden of silence
(2015)
The burden of silence
Sabbatai Sevi and the evolution of the Ottoman-Turkish dönmes
by Cengiz Şişman
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"This is the first comprehensive social, intellectual and religious history of the wide-spread Sabbatean movement from its birth in the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century to the Republic of Turkey in the first half of the twentieth century, claiming that they owed their survival to the internalization of the Kabbalistic "burden of silence"--
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2015
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Table of Contents
Chapt I: Remapping a Messianic movement in the early modern world
The Messiah of an Ottoman City
The early modern Ottoman crisis, Ottoman Jewry and the Sabbatean movement
Ottoman Sultans, European monarchs and Sabbatai Sevi
Grand viziers, the Ottoman puritans and Sabbatai Sevi
Natural calamities and the Sabbatean movement
Sabbatai Sevi and Nathan of Gaza: the beginnings of a Messianic movement
Chapt II: The rise and fall of the Sabbatean movement in the Eurasian world
Sultan's Gaze: Ottoman perception of the Sabbatean movement
Izmir: the Messiah appeared
Istanbul: the Messiah imprisoned
Dardanelle: the Messiah exiled
London: dissemination and magnitude of the movement in the Eurasian world
Edirne: the Messiah convicted
Spain and Portuguese: the Marrano impact on the movement
Sultan's palace: become a Muslim or prepare to die!
Chapt III: From a global movement to an Ottoman sect: the birth of a Crypto-Messianic community
A new Muslim in the Ottoman world
Living and schooling at the Pharaoh's palace
Self-perception of the Messiah and the mystery of the Godhead
The early Messianic community
The exiled Messiah
The dead Messiah?
Chapt IV: Authority, authenticity, and leadership: failed prophecy and the emergence of post-Messianic sects in the Ottoman empire and Eastern Europe
The birth of a post-Messianic community: Yakubis
Jewish Sabbateans among the Dönmes
Nathan of Gaza and the Lurianic Kabbala
Miguel Cardozo and the theology of "second coming"
The rekindling of Messianic expectations
A growing community: individual conversions vs. mass conversions
A new authority: Karakas
A new authenticity: Kapancis
Chapt V: Politics of Crypto and hybrid identities among the Jews, Christians and Muslims
Naming hybrid Jewish and Ottoman Communit(ies)
European connections: the Karakas and the Polish Crypto-Jewish Frankists
Dönmes among the Jews, Christians and Muslims
Christian missionaries discover the Dönmes
Ottoman officials discover the Dönmes
Chapt VI: Religious beliefs and practices in parallel space and time
The eighteen commandments as a Kabbalistic constitution
The Credo and abolition of ceremonial law
Language and liturgy
Religious calendar and festivals
Crypto-self government and its institutions
Birth, circumcision, genealogy and marriage
Homes and neighborhoods
Charity and the community chest
Administrative committees and communal houses
Worship houses and temples
Courts
Death, burial and cemeteries
Chapt VII: The experience of modernity: the emergence of Orthodox, Reformist and liberal Dönmes
Modern schools and the rise of a new generation
Salonica and internationalization of the Dönmes
Alternative brotherhoods: Dönmes as Sufis and freemasons
From Salonica to Empire: Dönmes as revolutionary young Turks
Between tradition and modernity
Farewell to the Salonica Golden Age
Chapt VIII: From Empire to nation-state: resettlement in modern Turkey
The Dönme alteneuland: Turkey Dönmes as the founding elite of the modern Turkey and Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk)
New "ideal" citizens and Crypto-identities
Repositioning in a nation-state: Mustafa Kemal's "bomb of enlightenment" and the Karakaş Rüştü Affair
Silencing the Dönmes: beginning of an End?
Conclusion: Passion for the waiting.
Edition Notes
Various printings.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-308) and index.
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