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

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  1. Topkapı Palace Museum Archive, Arzlar E. 2445/ 1 32. The document is dated
    June 29, 1 685.

  2. Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 67a.

  3. Baysun, “Mehmed IV,” 555.

  4. Baysun, “Mehmed IV,” 555.

  5. Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:330; Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 4:333.

  6. Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 80a.

  7. 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.



  1. 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).



  1. 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.

  2. Nihadi, Tarih-i Nihadi, fols. 1 b–2a, 225a.


conclusion

1. Piterberg, An Ottoman Tragedy, 1 64.


  1. See Abou-El-Haj, The 1703 Rebellion and the Structure of Ottoman Politics.

  2. Kafadar, Between Two Worlds, 1 49; also quoted in Piterberg, An Ottoman Trag-
    edy, 1 65.

  3. 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.



  1. B. Lewis, The Jews of Islam, 46–52.

  2. Necipoğlu, Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power, 255–56.

  3. 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
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