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- If I have erred when responding to overly dismissive and disparaging histori-
ography, I have erred on the side of being sympathetic to the main subjects of the study,
Mehmed IV and those nearest him.
- See Gabriel Piterberg, An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 1 0– 1 4, 1 48–50; Colin Imber, The Ottoman
Empire, 1300–1650: The Structure of Power (Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002),
321 –22; Gülrü Necipoğlu, Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapı Palace in the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991 ), 1 6, 26, 30, 1 02–6,
1 75; Nicholas Vatin and Gilles Veinstein, Le Sérail ébranlé: Essai sur les morts, depositions et
avènements des sultans ottomans (XIVe–XIXe siècle) (Paris: Fayard, 2003), 1 85–92.- Imber, The Ottoman Empire, and Daniel Goffman, The Ottoman Empire and
Early Modern Europe (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), like Leslie Peirce’s
The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1 993) before them, do not extend their analyses past 1 656. Donald
Quataert, The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922 (New York: Cambridge University Press,
2000), begins with a quick overview but devotes three quarters of the book to the nine-
teenth century. Mehmed IV appears in these modern texts as a hapless minor deserving
of only two or three mentions. - Norman Itzkowitz, Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1 972), 38; Halil Inalcik, “The Emergence of the Ottomans,” in The
Cambridge History of Islam, ed. P. M. Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton and Bernard Lewis (New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1 970), 1 :283. - See, for example, Feridun Emecen, “From the Founding to Küçük Kaynarca,”
in History of the Ottoman State, Society and Civilisation, ed. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, 2 vols.
(Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture, 200 1 ), 1 :3–62; 6–8, in
which he argues that ghaza was an Islamic military campaign against the Byzantines
and that this ghaza/jihad worldview was the prevalent ideology of the fi rst Ottomans.
He does not mention Ottoman campaigns against Muslims nor Christian allies of the
Ottomans.
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