Sabbatai Tzevi

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 * nationality= Ottoman Empire
 * religion= Judaism, later Sabbatism, then Islam
 * birth= 1626
 * death=1676
 * cause of death= Presumably natural causes
 * occupation= Scholar, Rabbi, Religious leader
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 * }}{{clearright}}{{The More it Changes Historical Character}}{{Stack end}}Sabbatai Zevi (שַׁבְּתַאי צְבִי Shabbetai Tzvi, other spellings include Sabbatai Tzevi, Shabbetai Ẓevi, Sabbatai Sevi, and Sabetay Sevi in Turkish) (August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676) was a Turkish-born Sephardic Rabbi and kabbalist who claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. He was the founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement.

At the age of forty, he was forced by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV to convert to Islam.