He describes the Dönmeh as a small cluster of crypto-Jewish families who continued Zevi's inversion theology, including transgression and justification by sin, inside the Islamic world.
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Sabbatianism
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Jiang cites captured Iraqi intelligence files from 2003 as evidence that regional actors themselves believed the Saudi royal family had Sabbatean or crypto-Jewish ties similar to those attributed to Turkish elites.
Jiang's model is that the British could recruit Sabbateans inside the Ottoman Empire through Freemasonry, making Sabbatean networks a useful covert asset against imperial rivals.
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"the Messiah converting, what it does is that it absolves all Jews of the messiah, the Messiah converting, what it does is that it..."
"How do you know your true faith in God? Because you're not afraid to break the laws of net. Your faith in God is..."
"And that's just Turkey. In 2003, when the American military overran Iraq and they went to Baghdad and seized all the files of Iraqi..."
"They're very secretive people. But my guess is this. We don't know what the actual connection between the British Empire and the Sabbateans are,..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
The interview begins with an old historical puzzle and turns it into a present-tense accusation: dead sects do not stay dead when their stories, inversions, and elite habits get embedded in modernity.
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