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

24. Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:369.


25. Robert Dankoff, The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman: Melek Ahmed Paşa
    (1588–1662) as portrayed in Evliya Çelebi’s Book of Travels (Seyahat-name), translation and

commentary by Robert Dankoff (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991 ), 1 02.

26. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fol. 2 1 b.


27. Solakzade, Tarih-i Al-i Osman, fol. 475b; Vecihi Hasan Çelebi, Tarih-i Vecihi,
    fol. 63a.


28. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 95.


29. Nihadi, Tarih-i Nihadi, fol. 1 58a.


30. Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 5: 11 2.


31. Dankoff, The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman, 89.


32. Nihadi, Tarih-i Nihadi, fol. 1 58b.


33. Solakzade, Tarih-i Al-i Osman, fol. 480b.


34. Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 6:99.


35. Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 11 6.


36. Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 775a.


37. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 1 89, 191.


38. Ibid., 191 –92; Kürd, fol. 5b.


39. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 1 96.


40. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fols. 27b–29a.


41. Kürd Hatib, Risāle, fol. 5b.


42. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 1 99; Vecihi Hasan Çelebi, Tarih-i Vecihi,
    fol. 75b; Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 6:98.


43. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fols. 1 b, 35b, 36b.


44. Solakzade, Tarih-i Al-i Osman, fol. 487a.


45. Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 776a.


46. Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:373–74; Abdurrahman Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, Köprülü

Library, Istanbul, MS. 2 1 6, fols. 27a–28a.
47. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 67.

48. Dankoff, The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman, 76–77.


49. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 68; Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 5:98, 97–98.


50. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 69.


51. Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:374; Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 70.


52. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 70.


53. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fol. 2 1 a.


54. Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 11 5; Dankoff, The Intimate Life of an Otto-
    man Statesman, 87.
    55. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 73.
    56. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fol. 2 1 a.
    57. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 78.
    58. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fols. 23a, 26b.
    59. Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 774b.
    60. Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:385. The original title of the work is Düstur ül-amel
    li-islah il-halel.

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