Scholarly treatments of Sabbatai Zevi erase the Muslim context entirely

Evidence

Paul Fen- ton’s assertion about Gershom Scholem’s work remains relevant: “The impression gathered is that the whole of this intriguing episode in Jewish history could well have taken place outside of the Muslim realm and that its unhappy hero did not end up by converting to Islam” (Paul B. Fenton, “Shabbatai Sebi and His Muslim Contemporary Muhammad An-Niyazi,” 81). — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 1263