Mark David Baer, The Dönme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.

摘要

This history of the Dönme, followers of seventeenth-century messianic leadernShabbatai Tzevi (an Ottoman convert from Judaism to Islam), offers a timelyncontribution to a cross-disciplinary trend: the study of ontology, that is, ques-ntions about which groups exist, what they have in common, and how theynshould be grouped or divided. As Baer writes, “What are the limits to beingna Jew, a Muslim, a Turk, or a Greek?” Using genealogies, tomb inscriptions,nmemoirs, interviews, and archival sources, Baer argues that for threenhundred centuries the Dönme were neither Crypto-Jews nor hereticalnMuslims, as many have argued, but something else entirely, namely a mytho-nlogized group known for secrecy and syncretism.