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Jewish Mysticism & Kabbalah

The Dönme

Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks

by Marc David Baer

A history of the descendants of Sabbatai Zevi's followers who converted to Islam, centred on Salonica and later Istanbul. Baer follows their religious identity, commercial life and role in Ottoman reform and early republican Turkey.

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