index 321
legal conditions regarding, 99–100
political context concerning, 99
property reclamation and, 97–99
stamping out idolatry in, 173–75
Chronicle (Pasha)
as book of kings genre, 144–45
Mehmed IV’s hunting and, 182
Mehmed, Vani, and, 109
as oral address, 107
piety noted in, 107–8
chronicles, 22, 263n 69
chronicle writers, 11
circle of justice, 42
circumcision
clothing and, 190, 191
conversion link with, 10
Covel account of, 189–90
festival, 189–90, 293n 25
“The Statute of the New Muslim” and,
191, 192
cloaking converts, 201–2
clothing
archival documents regarding, 194–95,
293 n 31
bestowal of robe and, 15, 131–32, 258n 26
circumcision and, 190, 191
cloaking converts and, 201–2
convert gender and, 200–201
items bestowed, 199
Mehmed IV and, 194–95
Muslim garments and, 198–99
palace treasurer and, 199–200
turban and, 198, 199
Tzevi and, 131–32
coffee consumption
Crete battle and, 158
Kadızade and Murad IV and, 66–67
coffee houses, 68, 271n 29
coins
devalued, 48–49, 52
purse of, 202
commoners
as converts, 195–96
practicing Islamization, 102–4
used in hunting, 184
communal identity, 18
compelling conversion, 203
The Conquest Book of Kamaniça (Nabi),
165–67
Constantinople, 207
conversion
author’s arguments surrounding, 5–7
broadest ring of, 10–11
concentric rings of, 5–8, 10–12, 13
external, 13–14
fi rst ring of, 8
internal, 13
political context preceding, 7
self, 7
third ring of, 10
See also drover conversion account;
hunting for converts; theory,
religious conversion; voluntary
conversion
conversion link
with hunting, 10, 179
with piety, 6
corpse disinterment, 173–74, 290n 36
Cossacks, 49, 53
Counsel for Sultans (Ali), 42–43
coup, military, 236–37
court conversions, 196–97
Covel, John, 189–90
Crete campaigns, 10
Agha, Hasan, and, 151
citadel walls reached in, 156
Jewish space and, 161
launch of, 154–55
massive battle during, 158
Mehmed IV’s involvement in, 155–57
Mehmed IV’s travels during, 156–58
Mehmed, Vani, and, 155
Ottoman victory in, 158–59
religious geography and, 160–61,
288 n 81
setbacks in, 53–55, 56
unsuccessful siege of, 155
Venetian ambassador and, 157
crime, 52–53
crisis, 39–40
currency, 52Dede, Ahmed
Kadızadelis and, 73–74
translation of, 243–44
views of, 12
dervishes, 21
documents
clothing, 194–95, 293n 31
court conversion, 196–97