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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Cengiz Sisman is Professor of History at University of Houston, Clear Lake. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The Burden of Silence is the first comprehensive history of an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, Sabbateanism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
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The Burden of Silence is the first comprehensive history of an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, Sabbateanism.
