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 "id": "person/sabbatai-zevi",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "sabbatai-zevi",
 "label": {
  "ar": "شبتاي تسفي",
  "en": "Sabbatai Zevi",
  "ur": "شبتی صوی"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "شبتاي تسفي (1626-1676م) مدعي مشيحية يهودي ازدهرت حركته في العالم العثماني، انتهى باعتناقه الإسلام ظاهريا أمام السلطان؛ تروي الدراسة الأكاديمية سيرته وسياقها العثماني {cite:scholem-sabbatai-1973}.",
  "en": "Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676 CE) was a Jewish messianic claimant whose movement flourished across the Ottoman world and ended in his nominal conversion to Islam before the sultan; academic study records his course and Ottoman context {cite:scholem-sabbatai-1973}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "anatolia-balkans"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/gunpowder-empires"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "islam-and-judaism",
  "sects-and-schools"
 ],
 "data": {
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q299215"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/scholem-sabbatai-1973"
  ],
  "perspectives": [
   {
    "tradition": "sunni",
    "id": "ottoman-response",
    "stance": {
     "ar": "حركة قابلها الخلاف العثماني بالاحتواء وانتهت بإسلام مدّعيها أمام السلطان",
     "en": "A movement the Ottoman establishment contained, ending in the claimant's conversion before the sultan"
    },
    "summary": {
     "en": "The Ottoman religious establishment met the movement with containment; the claimant's nominal conversion before Mehmed IV closed the episode in the imperial account {cite:scholem-sabbatai-1973}."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/scholem-sabbatai-1973"
    ]
   },
   {
    "tradition": "academic",
    "id": "academic-scholarship",
    "stance": {
     "en": "The largest Jewish messianic movement of the early modern period, studied through Scholem's standard biography"
    },
    "summary": {
     "en": "Scholem's biography traces the claimant's course from Smyrna through the empire to arrest and conversion, and the movement's continuation in the Dönmeh {cite:scholem-sabbatai-1973}."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/scholem-sabbatai-1973"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sensitivity": "contested",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "wikidata-import deferred Q299215; contested: academic (Scholem) fallback, no SD source",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "run": "wd-deferred-10"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "شبتاي تسفي (1626-1676م) مدعي مشيحية يهودي ازدهرت حركته في العالم العثماني وانتهت باعتناقه الإسلام ظاهريا أمام السلطان؛ وبقيت بقاياها في جماعة الدونمه {cite:scholem-sabbatai-1973}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الآراء",
     "markdown": "- **المؤسسة العثمانية:** احتوت الحركة وانتهت بإسلام مدّعيها أمام محمد الرابع {cite:scholem-sabbatai-1973}.\n- **البحث الأكاديمي:** أعظم الحركات المشيحية اليهودية في العصر الحديث المبكر كما يصفها شولم {cite:scholem-sabbatai-1973}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/sabbatai-zevi",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676 CE) was a Jewish messianic claimant whose movement swept the Ottoman world and ended in his nominal conversion to Islam before the sultan; its remnants persisted in the Dönmeh {cite:scholem-sabbatai-1973}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Perspectives",
     "markdown": "- **Ottoman establishment:** the movement was contained and closed by the claimant's conversion before Mehmed IV {cite:scholem-sabbatai-1973}.\n- **Academic:** the largest Jewish messianic movement of the early modern period, as Scholem describes {cite:scholem-sabbatai-1973}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/sabbatai-zevi",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "شبتی صوی (1626ء–1676ء) ایک یہودی مسیحا دعویدار تھا جس کی تحریک عثمانی دنیا میں پھیلی اور سلطان کے سامنے اس کے ظاہری اسلام قبول کرنے پر تمام ہوئی؛ اس کی باقیات دونمہ میں رہ گئیں {cite:scholem-sabbatai-1973}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نقطہ ہائے نظر",
     "markdown": "- **عثمانی ادارہ:** تحریک کو قابو کیا گیا اور دعویدار کے محمد رابع کے سامنے اسلام قبول کرنے پر معاملہ بند ہوا {cite:scholem-sabbatai-1973}۔\n- **علمی نقطہ نظر:** ابتدائی جدید دور کی سب سے بڑی یہودی مسیحائی تحریک جیسا کہ شولم بیان کرتا ہے {cite:scholem-sabbatai-1973}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/sabbatai-zevi",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
 "connections": [],
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  "building/al-kadhimiya-mosque",
  "building/imam-husayn-shrine",
  "concept/ahd-allah",
  "concept/ahl-al-ahwa",
  "concept/ahl-al-qibla",
  "concept/al-bashara-bil-nabi-fi-al-kutub",
  "concept/al-iftiraq-al-ummah",
  "concept/companionship-suhba"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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