Hadar Feldman Samet
Tel Aviv University, Jewish History, Faculty Member
- Ottoman Literature, Jewish Cultural Studies, Jewish Mysticism, Early modern Ottoman History, Ottoman Balkans, Arab Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and 20 moreLadino (Judeo-Spanish) Language and Literature, Sabbateanism, History of Turkish and Ottoman music, Sephardic Studies, Sephardic Literature and Culture, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies, Ottoman History, Ottoman Studies, Ottoman Empire, Modern and Contemporary Jewish History, Modern Jewish History, Middle East & North Africa, Middle East Studies, Middle Eastern History, Turkish music, Turkish makam maqam classical music, Jewish-Muslim Relations, Jewish Music, Common Narrations In Jewish and Muslim Traditions, and Jewish liturgical musicedit
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This article introduces the idea of religious renewal as it was manifested in the ritual practices of the Sabbatian Maʾaminim of Salonica – followers of Shabbtai Tzvi who converted from Judaism to Islam during the 1680s, in the footsteps... more
This article introduces the idea of religious renewal as it was manifested in the ritual practices of the Sabbatian Maʾaminim of Salonica – followers of Shabbtai Tzvi who converted from Judaism to Islam during the 1680s, in the footsteps of their Messiah. The religious renewal of the Maʾaminim is demonstrated by the appropriation of the Sufi-Muslim practice, known as zikr, as part of their ritual singing. The appropriation of zikr practices by the Maʾaminim is understood in the context of the rise of this practice throughout all of Ottoman Muslim society, specifically as part of ilahi singing, demonstrating religious innovation in Ottoman culture at the beginning of the modern era.