{"product_id":"the-burden-of-silence-sabbatai-sevi-and-the-evolution-of-the-ottoman-turkish-dnmes-9780190698560","title":"The Burden of Silence: Sabbatai Sevi and the Evolution of the Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Burden of Silence\u003c\/em\u003e is the first monograph on Sabbateanism, an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, tracing it from its beginnings during the seventeenth century up to the present day. Initiated by the Jewish rabbi Sabbatai Sevi, the movement combined Jewish, Islamic, and\u003cbr\u003eChristian religious and social elements and became a transnational phenomenon, spreading througout Afro-Euroasia. When Ottoman authorities forced Sevi to convert to Islam in 1666, his followers formed messianic crypto-Judeo-Islamic sects, Dönmes, which played an important role in the modernization\u003cbr\u003eand secularization of Ottoman and Turkish society and, by extension, Middle Eastern society as a whole. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing Ottoman, Jewish, and European sources, Sisman examines the dissemination and evolution of Sabbeateanism in engagement with broader topics such as global histories, messianism, mysticism, conversion, crypto-identities, modernity, nationalism, and memory. By using flexible and multiple\u003cbr\u003eidentities to stymie external interference, the crypto-Jewish Dönmes were able to survive despite persecution from Ottoman authorities, internalizing the Kabbalistic principle of a burden of silence according to which believers keep their secret on pain of spiritual and material punishment, in\u003cbr\u003eorder to sustain their overtly Muslim and covertly Jewish identities. Although Dönmes have been increasingly abandoning their religious identities and embracing (and enhancing) secularism, individualism, and other modern ideas in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey since the nineteenth century, \u003cbr\u003eSisman asserts that, throughout this entire period, religious and cultural Dönmes continued to adopt the burden of silence in order to cope with the challenges of messianism, modernity, and memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cengiz Sisman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190698560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCengiz Sisman \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of History at University of Houston, Clear Lake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40287220007027,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a41738d3-e99f-42da-8ba5-808e89950acb.jpg?v=1658236125","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-burden-of-silence-sabbatai-sevi-and-the-evolution-of-the-ottoman-turkish-dnmes-9780190698560","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}