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Notes
. For a political narrative of this period, see Finkel, Osman’s Dream, 240–328.
. Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 5:54–59; Thomas, A Study of Naima, 106–110.
. Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 5:54–59, 6:218–230.
. Baer, Honored by the Glory of Islam, 113–118.
. Shaw, The Jews of the Ottoman Empire, 128–131.
. Ibid., 132–133.
. G o ff m a n , Izmir and the Levantine World, 90–92; Baer, Honored by the Glory of Islam,
122–132.
. Levy, The Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire, 84–89.
. Baer, Honored by the Glory of Islam, 68–80, 105–119; Baer, “Islamic Conversion Narra-
tives of Women.”
. Shaw, The Jews of the Ottoman Empire, 137–138.
. Barnai, “Messianism and Leadership,” 168.
. Shaw, The Jews of the Ottoman Empire, 136–137.
. Ibid., 137.
. Peirce, The Imperial Harem.
. M. Cavid Baysun, Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., s.v. “Kösem Sultan,” 5:272–273; Inal-
cik, Devlet-i ɇaliyye, 187–188.
. Peirce, The Imperial Harem,258–265.
. See her letters, petitions addressed to her, and her orders regarding the affairs of the
state in Inalcik, Devlet-i ɇaliyye, 370–427.
. Ibid., 225; Baysun, Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., s.v. “Kösem Sultan,” 5:272.
. Inalcik, Devlet-i ɇaliyye, 370–427. All translations in this chapter are mine.
. Baysun, Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., s.v. “Kösem Sultan,” 5:272.
. Inalcik, Devlet-i ɇaliyye, 394–395, doc. 11.
. Ilgürel, “Kösem Sultanın bir vakfiyesi,” 83–94; Kocaaslan, Kösem Sultan.
. Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 5:107–155. For details on Turhan Sultan’s patronage, see Thys-
Şenocak, Ottoman Women Builders.
. Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 5:113.
. Thomas, A Study of Naima, 100–101.
. Ibid., 101.
. Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 5:132–148. See also Uluçay, Harem II, 47–50. Uluçay also believes
that the interference of harem women in politics was one of the main reasons for the decline of
Ottoman power.
. Quoted in Dankoff, The Intimate Life of an Ottoman Statesman, 89.
. Finkel, Osman’s Dream,249–250.
. Raşid, Tarih-i Raşid, 1:362–363.
. Ibid. Zilfi, The Politics of Piety,203.