The Burden of Silence —— Sabbatai Sevi and the Evolution of the Ottoman-Turkish Dönmes

----- 沉默的负担:沙巴泰·泽维和奥斯曼土耳其的演变

ISBN: 9780190244057 出版年：2015 页码：339 Sisman, Cengiz Oxford University Press

The Burden of Silence is the first comprehensive history of an early modern Ottoman-Jewish messianic movement, Sabbateanism. Using Ottoman, Jewish, and European sources, Sisman shows how proponents of Sabbateanism, members of a crypto-Judeo-Islamic sect known as the Donme, were able to survive despite persecution from Ottoman authorities by internalizing the Kabbalistic principle of a "burden of silence" according to which believers keep their secret on pain of spiritual and material punishment.