Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
by
Marc David Baer
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
This book tells the story of the Dönme, 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 Dönme were accepted as Muslims, and by the end of...