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The Doenme - Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (Hardcover)
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The Doenme - Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks (Hardcover)
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This book tells the story of the Donme, the descendents of Jews who
resided in the Ottoman Empire and converted to Islam along with
their messiah, Rabbi Shabbatai Tzevi, in the seventeenth century.
For two centuries following their conversion, the Donme were
accepted as Muslims, and by the end of the nineteenth century rose
to the top of Salonikan society. The Donme helped transform
Salonika into a cosmopolitan city, promoting the newest innovation
in trade and finance, urban reform, and modern education. They
eventually became the driving force behind the 1908 revolution that
led to the overthrow of the Ottoman sultan and the establishment of
a secular republic.
To their proponents, the Donme are enlightened secularists and
Turkish nationalists who fought against the dark forces of
superstition and religious obscurantism. To their opponents, they
were simply crypto-Jews engaged in a plot to dissolve the Islamic
empire. Both points of view assume the Donme were anti-religious,
whether couched as critique or praise.
But it is time that we take these religious people seriously on
their own terms. In the Ottoman Empire, the Donme promoted
morality, ethics, spirituality, and a syncretistic religion that
reflected their origins at the intersection of Jewish Kabbalah and
Islamic Sufism. This is the first book to tell their story, from
their origins to their near total dissolution as they became
secular Turks in the mid-twentieth century.
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