- Topkapı Palace Museum Archive, Arzlar E. 2445/ 1 32. The document is dated
June 29, 1 685. - Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 67a.
- Baysun, “Mehmed IV,” 555.
- Baysun, “Mehmed IV,” 555.
- Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:330; Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 4:333.
- Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 80a.
- Kafadar, Between Two Worlds, 1 48–50.
1 0. Gabriel Piterberg, “The Alleged Rebellion of Abaza Mehmed Paşa: Historiog-
raphy and the Ottoman State in the Seventeenth Century,” International Journal of Turk-
ish Studies 8, nos. 1 –2 (Spring 2002): 1 4.
- Piterberg, An Ottoman Tragedy, 191 –200.
1 2. Musavvir Hüseyin, Silsilenâme, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna,
Bildarchiv, Handschriftensammlung A.F. 1 7, fols. 36a, 35b.
1 3. Baysun, “Mehmed IV,” 556.
1 4. Spence, Emperor of China, 8.
1 5. Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, fols. 48b–52a. Subsequent references to this source
are cited parenthetically throughout this section.
1 6. Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, 11 4, 1 32. See also 22 1 , where
Rycaut relates that Jews froze to death while forced to act as drovers for the sultan who
was wintering outside Salonica in 1 669.
1 7. Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 772b. Yusuf Nabi refers to the sultan as “the
brocade of the divan of the sultanate.” Yusuf Nabi, Fethname-i Kamaniça, fol. 3a.
1 8. Müneccimbaşı Ahmed b. Lutfullah, Saha’ifu’l-ahbar, Topkapı Palace Museum
Library, MS. Baghdad 244, fol. 1 75a.
1 9. Müneccimbaşı Ahmed b. Lutfullah, Sahaifu’l-ahbar, 3 vols. (Istanbul: Matbaa-ı
Amire, 1 285/ 1 868–69).
- Selim I was not referred to as “the Grim” during his reign; likewise, Suleiman I was
not called “the Lawgiver” while he was in power. Kafadar, “The Myth of the Golden Age,” 40. - Nihadi, Tarih-i Nihadi, fols. 1 b–2a, 225a.
conclusion1. Piterberg, An Ottoman Tragedy, 1 64.- See Abou-El-Haj, The 1703 Rebellion and the Structure of Ottoman Politics.
- Kafadar, Between Two Worlds, 1 49; also quoted in Piterberg, An Ottoman Trag-
edy, 1 65. - Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa served as the grand vizier of Mehmed IV’s succes-
sor, Suleiman II, and Köprülü Hüseyin served as grand vizier under Mustafa II. The
Kadızadelis may have had lost infl uence, but the Köprülüs had not.
- B. Lewis, The Jews of Islam, 46–52.
- Necipoğlu, Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power, 255–56.
- Kathryn Babayan, Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early
Modern Iran (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), xv, xxiv–xxxviii.
298 notes to pages 232–248