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

66. For example, in 1 587 the seat of the Orthodox Christian patriarchate was
    forced to move when the sultan ordered the conversion of the Church of Pammakaris-
    tos into Fethiye (Victory) Mosque following Ottoman campaigns against the Safavids.
    Caroline Finkel, Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire, 1300–1923 (New York:
    Basic Books, 2005), 1 92.


67. Osman Çetin, Sicillere Göre Bursa’da İhtida Hareketleri ve Sosyal Sonuçları (1472–

1909. (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 1 994); Heath Lowry, Trabzon Şehrinin

İslamlaşması ve Türkleşmesi 1461–1583, trans. Demet Lowry and Heath Lowry, 2nd ed. (Is-
tanbul: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 1 998); Anton Minkov, Conversion to Islam in the

Balkans: Kisve Bahası Petitions and Ottoman Social Life, 1670–1730 (Leiden: Brill, 2004).

68. Minkov, Conversion to Islam in the Balkans, 11 0.


69. Legal sources include collections of legal responses of the sheikhulislams;
    law codes; “The Statute of the New Muslim”; and Islamic law court records from the

Beşiktaş, Galata, Hasköy, Istanbul, and Yeniköy districts of Istanbul. Archival and other
sources include petitions addressed by commoners to the sultan; palace payroll reg-

isters; petitions of the imperial secretary; imperial writs; registers of the bestowals of
cloaks by the court; decisions of the imperial council; and treatises composed by the

sultan’s preachers. Epigraphic and visual sources include tombstone and mausoleum
inscriptions and the inscriptions in the main mosque and tomb complex built in Is-

tanbul as well as other mosque inscriptions inscribed during this period. Endowment
deeds of new mosques were also examined, as were Ottoman miniature depictions of

Mehmed IV made over the course of the reign of the sultan, stock characters in Otto-
man society, and European prints.

70. 
    

    Quataert, The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922, 1 – 1 2; Goffman, The Ottoman Empire
    and Early Modern Europe, 1 –20, 1 92–234.

    
    


71. 
    

    Goffman, The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe, 233, 224–25.

    
    

chapter 1

1. Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2 vols. (Istanbul: Ceride-i Havadis Matbaası, 1 286/ 1 869),

2:327; Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 4:305.

2. Anonymous, “Valide Sultan/la Maore Regina,” Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,
   Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek, Lipperheide OZ 52, 68.


3. Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:329.


4. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 2.


5. Katip Çelebi, Fezleke 2:329; Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 772a.


6. Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 4:325.


7. Peirce, The Imperial Harem, 263–64.


8. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 4.


9. Ibid., 3.
   1 0. Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:329.


10. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 4.
    1 2. Mehmed Hemdani Solakzade, Tarih-i Al-i Osman, Topkapı Palace Museum Li-
    brary, MS. Ahmed III 3078, fol. 467a.

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