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World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies
Barcelona, July 19th - 24th 2010
Sabbataianism Observed (395) – Panel
• Date: THU 22, 5.00-7.00 pm
• Institution: Furman University (USA)
• Organizer: Cengiz Sisman
• Language: English
• Description: The Sabbatian movement and its subsequent developments represent one of the most enigmatic and paradoxical episodes in Jewish and Islamic history in early modern and modern times. When Sabbatai Sevi, the founder of one of the biggest messianic movement in history, was forced to convert to Islam by the Ottoman authorities in 1666, a small number of believers followed in him and became Muslim; another small group of believers remained in the Jewish folds, and yet another group converted to Christianity in later centuries. Because of its mysterious nature, Sabbataians have been the observed and be the object of much speculation by different people such as Jewish rabbis, Muslim officials, Christian missionaries, and conspiracy theorists. Sabbataians were variously labeled as ‘Ma’amin/believers’, ‘New Muslims’ ‘Donmes/converts’, ‘mamzarim/illegitimate children’, ‘heretics’, ‘Muhammedan Jews,’ or ‘crypto-believers.’ Based on the new archival, rabbinical, European and missionary sources, this interdisciplinary panel aims to shed brighter lights on unknown aspects of the Sabbataians and their observers in Ottoman Empire as well in the West. The papers in this panel, therefore, deal with different aspects of the Sabbataianism such as their beliefs, practices and education; their impacts in history; and other theoretical debates about the Sabbataian studies. Since discussions about them continue up to the present in many Middle Eastern societies, our panel has also debates perception and self-perception of the Sabbaatians in recent periods.
Chair: Madeline Zilfi, University of Maryland
link: Shabtai zvi
World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies
Barcelona, July 19th - 24th 2010
Sabbataianism Observed (395) – Panel
• Date: THU 22, 5.00-7.00 pm
• Institution: Furman University (USA)
• Organizer: Cengiz Sisman
• Language: English
• Description: The Sabbatian movement and its subsequent developments represent one of the most enigmatic and paradoxical episodes in Jewish and Islamic history in early modern and modern times. When Sabbatai Sevi, the founder of one of the biggest messianic movement in history, was forced to convert to Islam by the Ottoman authorities in 1666, a small number of believers followed in him and became Muslim; another small group of believers remained in the Jewish folds, and yet another group converted to Christianity in later centuries. Because of its mysterious nature, Sabbataians have been the observed and be the object of much speculation by different people such as Jewish rabbis, Muslim officials, Christian missionaries, and conspiracy theorists. Sabbataians were variously labeled as ‘Ma’amin/believers’, ‘New Muslims’ ‘Donmes/converts’, ‘mamzarim/illegitimate children’, ‘heretics’, ‘Muhammedan Jews,’ or ‘crypto-believers.’ Based on the new archival, rabbinical, European and missionary sources, this interdisciplinary panel aims to shed brighter lights on unknown aspects of the Sabbataians and their observers in Ottoman Empire as well in the West. The papers in this panel, therefore, deal with different aspects of the Sabbataianism such as their beliefs, practices and education; their impacts in history; and other theoretical debates about the Sabbataian studies. Since discussions about them continue up to the present in many Middle Eastern societies, our panel has also debates perception and self-perception of the Sabbaatians in recent periods.
Chair: Madeline Zilfi, University of Maryland
link: Shabtai zvi
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