The Dnme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, And Secular Turks,Used

The Dnme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, And Secular Turks,Used

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This book tells the story of the Dnme, 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 Dnme were accepted as Muslims, and by the end of the nineteenth century rose to the top of Salonikan society. The Dnme 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 Dnme are enlightened secularists and Turkish nationalists who fought against the dark forces of superstition and religious obscurantism. To their opponents, they were simply cryptoJews engaged in a plot to dissolve the Islamic empire. Both points of view assume the Dnme were antireligious, 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 Dnme 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 midtwentieth century.

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