ISBN:
9780190244057
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 318 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2015
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Şişman, Cengiz The burden of silence
DDC:
296.8/2
Keywords:
Shabbethai Tzevi
;
Šabbetay Ṣevî *1626-1676*
;
Geschichte
;
Sabbathaians History
;
Crypto-Jews History
;
Jews History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
;
Messiah Judaism
;
History
;
Dönme
;
Osmanisches Reich
;
Türkei
;
Osmanisches Reich
;
Dönme
;
Geschichte
;
Shabtai Tsevi 1626-1676
;
Osmanisches Reich
;
Türkei
;
Dönme
;
Geschichte
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapt. I: Remapping a Messianic movement in the early modern worldThe 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: the Karakaszade Rüstü Affair -- Silencing the Dönmes: beginning of an End? -- Conclusion: Passion for the waiting.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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