Honored by the Glory of Islam. Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe

x acknowledgments

always challenging. This book is as much hers as mine, and whatever grace

and intelligence it possesses is due to her. For her partnership I am deeply

grateful.

The offi cial modern Turkish orthography has been used in transcribing

Ottoman and Turkish words in the Latin script. Readers unacquainted with

Turkish should note the following: c = j as in John, ç = ch as in church, ğ = soft

g lengthens the preceding vowel, ı = similar to the u in radium, ö = French eu

as in deux, ü = French u as in durée, and ş = sh as in ship. Diacritical marks

have been minimized. For some terms, such as sheikh and pasha, modern

anglicized versions have been used.

Portions of chapter 4 previously appeared in “The Great Fire of 1 660 and

the Islamization of Christian and Jewish Space in Istanbul,” International Jour-

nal of Middle East Studies 36, no. 2 (May 2004): 1 59–8 1. Portions of chapter 6

appeared in “ 1 7. Yüzyılda Yahudilerin Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’ndaki Nüfuz ve

Mevkilerini Yitirmeleri,” Toplum ve Bilim 83 (Kış 1 999–2000): 202–22; and

“Messiah King or Rebel? Jewish and Ottoman Reactions to Sabbatai Sevi’s

Arrival in Istanbul,” Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts 9

(2003): 1 53–74.