together comprise a turban and purses of coins to nine new Muslims, fi ve of whom
were women. The next recorded example of new Muslims converting at court and
receiving new clothing occurs during the reign of Sultan Murad IV ( 1 623–40). BOA,
İbnülemin Tasnifi , Hil‘at Defteri (Imperial Register of Cloaks): 1 7, March 3, 1 625. Two
documents record the bestowal of turbans and coins to four converts. Three docu-
ments recorded the same day in 1 626 provide the information that fi fteen converts
received material for turbans and purses of coins. BOA, Ali Emiri Tasnifi , Murad IV:
278, March 24, 1 626.
- BOA, Ali Emiri Tasnifi , Mehmed IV: 99 11 , April 11 , 1 667.
- Hajji Ali Efendi, Fethname-i Kamaniça, fol. 1 35a.
- Travel estimates are based on ibid., fols. 1 5a, 1 6a, 1 7b, 1 8a– 1 9b, 1 32a. These
times are the maximum required for the sultan and his retinue to travel between resting
stations while on campaign.
See also Hajji Ali Efendi, Fethname-i Kamaniça, fol. 1 0b.
Goodwin, A History of Ottoman Architecture, 350.
BOA, Ali Emiri Tasnifi : Mehmed IV: 626.
BOA, Ali Emiri Tasnifi , Mehmed IV: 1 0286.
BOA, Ali Emiri Tasnifi , Mehmed IV: 9946.
Minkarizade, Fetāvā, fols. 34a–b.
Osmanlılarda Narh Müessesesi, 34 1 –67.
On the importance of the body of subject and king alike in early modern
France, see Sara Melzer and Kathryn Norberg, introduction to From the Royal to the Re-
publican Body, ed. Sara Melzer and Kathryn Norberg (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1 998), 1 – 1 0.
- Clifford Geertz, Negara: The Theater State in Nineteenth-Century Bali (Prince-
ton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1 980).
- BOA, Ali Emiri Tasnifi , Mehmed IV: 9852, 99 11 , 99 1 5, 9928, 9957, 504.
- Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, 65.
- Eyyubî Efendi Kānûnnâmesi, 27–29. As an example of how architecture re-
fl ected ceremony, the treasury where the fi ne cloaks were stored in Topkapı Palace is
located next door to the room used for meetings of the imperial divan.
BOA, Ali Emiri Tasnifi , IV Mehmed: 9852, 99 11 , 99 1 5, 9928, 9957.
Sources ottomanes sur les processus d’Islamization aux Balkans, Traduction des
documents A. Velkov et al, Serie sources-2 (Sofi a: Éditions de l’Academie bulgare des
sciences, 1 990), 35–37. The document referred to is Док. 1 6, л. 3.
- Ibid., Док. 1 6, л. 1 б–2a, Док. 1 6, л. 2б.
- Dursun Ali Tökel, “Şâirin Tarihe Düştüğü Not: Şâir Gözüyle Merzifonlu Kara
Mustafa Paşa ve Çehrin Seferi,” in Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Paşa Uluslararası Sempozy-
umu (Ankara: Merzifon Vakfı Ya yınları, 200 1 ), 37 1 –82.
Abdi Pasha, Şerh-i Kasîde-i Bürde, Topkapı Palace Museum Library, MS. H.
Hüsnü Paşa 101 3/2.
Sergio Bertelli, The King’s Body: Sacred Rituals of Power in Medieval and Early
Modern Europe, trans. R. Burr Litchfi eld (University Park: Pennsylvania State University
Press, 200 1 ), 4.
294 notes to pages 195–201