[2] This is largely based on the contention that Zevi's exile in the Balkans brought him into close contact with several forms of unorthodox Sufism which existed in the region.
The Dönme community of Salonika came to play a significant role in the Sufi life of the region and its members actively involved with a number of Sufi orders, particularly the Mevlevi. Among the masses of the people the greatest confusion reigned. Frank rejected religious norms, and said his followers were obligated to transgress as many moral boundaries as possible. At its height it claimed perhaps 50,000 followers, primarily Jews living in Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe. Claims of ties between Sabbatean Kabbalah and Sufismgo back to the days of Sabbatai Zevi.
Frankism was a Sabbatean Jewish religious movement of the 18th and 19th centuries, centered on the leadership of the Jewish Messiah claimant Jacob Frank, who lived from 1726 to 1791. In addition to the misery and disappointment from within, Muslims and Christians jeered at and scorned the credulous and duped Jews.
Another large group of Sabbateans succeeding the apostasy began to view Islam in an extremely negative light.The Emden-Eybeschutz controversy arose concerning the The majority of the rabbis in Poland, Moravia, and Bohemia, as well as the leaders of the Three Communities, supported Eybeschutz:Some scholars see seeds of the Hasidic movement within the Sabbatean movement.Some scholars have noted that the Sabbatean movement in general fostered and connected well with the principles of modern Sabbatai's conversion to Islam was extremely disheartening for the world's Jewish communities. Some alleged similarities between Dönme and unorthodox Sufi practice …