Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "1660 destruction of Safed" in English language version.
Moins de douze ans après, en 1660, sous Mohammed IV, la ville de Safed, si importante autrefois dans les annales juives parce qu'elle était habitée exclusivement par les Israélites, fut détruite par les Arabes, au point qu'il n' y resta, dit une chroniquer une seule ame juive.
In 1660, under Mohammed IV. (1649-87), Safed was destroyed by the Arabs.
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
