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467a; Vecihi Hasan Çelebi, Tarih-i Vecihi, Topkapı Palace Museum Library, MS. Revan
11 53, fol. 47b; Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fol. 1 7b.
1 5. Solakzade, Tarih-i Al-i Osman, fol. 469a.
1 6. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fol. 1 8a.
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Kunstbibliothek, Lipperheide OZ 52, 53.
1 8. Solakzade, Tarih-i Al-i Osman, fol. 469a.
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24. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 6.
25. Necipoğlu, Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power, 11 – 1 2. While the ideology be-
hind the term was unchanging, referring to conquest of the leading Christian empire
in order to rule the world, the target kept changing, from Constantinople to Rome,
Budapest, and, fi nally, Vienna. See Pál Fodor, “Ungarn und Wien in der osmanischen
Eroberungsideologie (im Spiegel der Tâ rîh-i Beç krâlı, 1 7. Jahrhundert),” in Fodor, In
Quest of the Golden Apple, 52–53.
26. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 7.
27. Anonymous, “Sultan Mechemet Imp. de’Turchi,” Staatliche Museen zu Berlin,
Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, Lipperheide OZ 52, 1.
28. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 7.
29. Solakzade, Tarih-i Al-i Osman, fol. 467b.
30. Vatin and Veinstein, Le Sérail ébranlé, 305–20.
31. Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:329; Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 9; Naima,
Tarih-i Naima, 4:334.
32. Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 772b.
33. Robert Mantran, “Un document sur la cizye a Istanbul a la fi n du XVIIe siè-
cle,” Journal of Turkish Studies 11 ( 1 987): 11 – 1 5. According to Ottoman poll tax records,
there were 62,000 Christian and Jewish households in Istanbul in 1 690–9 1 , of which
80 percent were Christian. If Christians and Jews made up 42 percent of the city’s
population, as they had in the previous century, then one can estimate that there were
86,000 Muslim households in the city. One can then approximate a population of be-
tween 600,000 and 750,000, including 200,000 to 250,000 Christians and 50,000
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