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RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Sabbatai Zevi

1626 - 1676

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Sabbatai Zevi (Hebrew: שַׁבְּתַי צְבִי, romanized: Šabbĕṯai Ṣĕḇî; Turkish: Sabetay Sevi; August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676) was an Ottoman Jewish mystic, and ordained rabbi from Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey). He was likely of Ashkenazi origin. Active throughout the Ottoman Empire, Zevi claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah and founded the Sabbatean movement.Upon arriving in Constantinople in February 1666, Sabbatai was imprisoned on the order of the grand vizier Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sabbatai Zevi has received more than 1,233,912 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Sabbatai Zevi is the 338th most popular religious figure (down from 256th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 104th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Turkish Religious Figure.

Sabbatai Zevi was most famous for his conversion to Islam in 1666.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 338 out of 2,238Before him are Pope Zachary, Pope Stephen IV, Pope Adrian V, Pope Callixtus I, Pope Leo IV, and Pope Martin I. After him are Pope Nicholas IV, Pope Damasus II, Ephrem the Syrian, James, son of Alphaeus, Barabbas, and Philip Neri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1626, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 2Before him is Christina, Queen of Sweden. After him are Jan Steen, Richard Cromwell, Francesco Redi, William II, Prince of Orange, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur, Giovanni Legrenzi, Louis Couperin, Bada Shanren, and Andrea Guarneri. Among people deceased in 1676, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 3Before him are Pope Clement X and Alexis of Russia. After him are Michiel de Ruyter, Francesco Cavalli, Köprülüzade Fazıl Ahmed Pasha, Madame de Brinvilliers, Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, Carl Gustaf Wrangel, and Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 128 out of 1,301Before him are Michael III (840), Şah Sultan (1509), Andronikos II Palaiologos (1259), Antinous (111), Basil II (958), and Henri Fayol (1841). After him are Balbinus (178), Ephrem the Syrian (306), Apelles (-370), Mausolus (-410), Chrysippus (-281), and Kayqubad I (1188).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Turkey

Among religious figures born in Turkey, Sabbatai Zevi ranks 18Before him are Saint Pantaleon (275), Gregory of Nyssa (335), Ulfilas (311), Photios I of Constantinople (900), Fethullah Gülen (1941), and Marcion of Sinope (85). After him are Ephrem the Syrian (306), Simeon Stylites (389), Pope Vitalian (600), Saint Nino (296), Saint Timothy (17), and Thecla (100).