Author:
Sisman, Cengiz.
Imprint:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Descriptionxvii, 318 pages ; 25 cm
Note: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 Dnmes -- 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 -- Donmes among the Jews, Christians and Muslims -- Christian missionaries discover the Donmes -- Ottoman officials discover the Dnmes -- 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 Dnmes -- Modern schools and the rise of a new generation -- Salonica and internationalization of the Donmes -- Alternative brotherhoods: Donmes as Sufis and freemasons -- From Salonica to Empire: Donmes 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 Dnme alteneuland: Turkey Dnmes as the founding elite of the modern Turkey and Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) -- New "ideal" citizens and Crypto-identities -- Repositioning in a nation-state: Mustafa Kemal's "bomb of enlightenment" and the Karakas Rustu Affair -- Silencing the Donmes: beginning of an End? -- Conclusion: Passion for the waiting.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-308) and index.
