1660 destruction of Safed (English Wikipedia)

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  • Singer, Isidore; Adler, Cyrus (1912). "Turkey: Seventeenth Century". The Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls. p. 283. Retrieved 5 April 2025. In 1660, under Mohammed IV. (1649-87), Safed was destroyed by the Arabs.
  • De Haas, Jacob (1934). History of Palestine. p. 345. Retrieved 5 April 2025. Safed, hotbed of mystics, is not mentioned in the Zebi adventure. Its community had been massacred in 1660, when the town was destroyed by Arabs, and only one Jew escaped.
  • Schwarz, Joseph (1850). A Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine. Translated by Isaac Leeser. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Carey & Hart. p. 409. Retrieved 5 April 2025. Sultan Seliman surrounded it with a wall in 5300 (1540), and it commenced to revive a little, and to be inhabited bythe most distinguished Jewish literati; but it was destroyed again in 5420 (1660). Also Archived 2018-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
  • Barnai, Jacob (1992). The Jews in Palestine in the eighteenth century: under the patronage of the Istanbul Committee of Officials for Palestine. Judaic studies. University of Alabama Press. p. 14. ISBN 0817305726. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
  • Rappel, Joel (1980). History of Eretz Israel from Prehistory up to 1882 (in Hebrew). Vol. 2. Tel Aviv: Israel Ministry of Defense Publishing House. p. 531. In 1662 Sabbathai Sevi arrived to Jerusalem. It was the time when the Jewish settlements of Galilee were destroyed by the Druze: Tiberias was completely desolate and only a few of former Safed residents had returned...
  • Scholem, Gershom (2016) [1957]. Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626–1676. Princeton University Press. p. 368. ISBN 978-0-691-17209-5. Retrieved 5 April 2025. In Safed, too, the [Sabbatai] movement gathered strength during the autumn of 1665. The reports about the utter destruction, in 1662 [sic], of the Jewish settlement there seem greatly exaggerated, and the conclusions based on them are false. ... Rosanes' account of the destruction of the Safed community is based on a misunderstanding of his sources; the community declined in numbers but continued to exist ... A very lively account of the Jewish community is given by French trader d'Arvieux who visited Safed in 1660.
  • Altshuler, Mor (2006). "Redemption begins in the Galilee (part 1, ch. 8)". The Messianic secret of Hasidism. Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, Vol. 39. BRILL. p. 157. ISBN 9047410831. Retrieved 5 April 2025. The golden age of Kabbalah in Safed, as well as its economic efflorescence continued through the sixteenth century. At its height, the city wad home to more than 15,000 Jews. - Section "The messianic immigrations (aliyyot) in the Land of Israel" Online Hebrew text of original 2002 U. of Haifa/Zmora-Bitan Press edition, Ch. 8, available & Archived 2018-03-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  • Firro, Kais (1992). A history of the Druzes. Vol. 1. BRILL. p. 45. ISBN 9004094377. Retrieved 5 April 2025. the sanjaq of Ṣafad, which was part of this province, remained under the suzerainty of Druze amīrs until 1660, when the Ottomans reorganized the province. The Maʿnīs, however were unable to preserve their control of the sanjaq, and the Druze villages in the area lost their protection.
  • Salibi, Kamal S. (2005). A house of many mansions: the history of Lebanon reconsidered. I.B.Tauris. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-86064-912-7.

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