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Book Title: Dönme : Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Marc David Baer
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Middle East / General, Jewish
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2009
Genre: History
Item Weight: 21.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 358 Pages
