The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks by Marc David Baer

The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks

Marc David Baer

332 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction reflective slow-paced
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This book tells the story of the D nme, 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...

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