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- Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 3 1 , 52–53, 1 65–67.
- Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fols. 24a, 1 40a, 38a. The former sheikhulislam was
dismissed from offi ce in 1651 , the latter in 1 662.
- Baysun, “Mehmed IV,” 550.
- Zilfi , The Politics of Piety, 1 77.
- Ibid.
- Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, Topkapı Museum Palace Library, MS. Hazine 1 468,
fols. 25a, 46a. - Ibid., fol. 46b.
- Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:383; Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 5:268.
- Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:383.
- Evliya Çelebi, Seyahatname, quoted in Dankoff, An Ottoman Mentality, 70, 7 1.
- Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 5:54–59.
- The original title is Mizanü’l-hakk. See The Balance of Truth, by Katip Chelebi,
translated with an introduction and notes by G. L. Lewis, Ethical and Religious Classics
of East and West, no. 1 9 (London: Allen and Unwin, 1 957); M. Tayyib Gökbilgin, “Katip
Çelebi, Interprète et rénovateur des traditions religieuses au XVIIe siècle,” Turcica 3
( 1971 ): 7 1 –79.
- Solakzade, Tarih-i Al-i Osman, fol. 487b.
- Ibid.; Vecihi Hasan Çelebi, Tarih-i Vecihi, fols. 85a–87a; Silahdar, Tarih-i Silah-
dar, 1 :59.
- Solakzade, Tarih-i Al-i Osman, fols. 487b, 488a.
55. Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 776b.
56. Inalcik, The Ottoman Empire, 1 84–85.
57. Ahmed Yaşar Ocak, “Religion,” in İhsanoğlu, History of the Ottoman State, Soci-
ety and Civilisation, 1 : 1 77–238, 234–35.
58. Ibid., 1 :237.
59. Zilfi , “The Kadızadelis,” 267.
60. Metin Kunt, “Ethnic-Regional (Cins) Solidarity in the Seventeenth-Century Ot-
toman Establishment,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 5 ( 1 974): 233–39.
61. Bektashis participated in the siege of Candia, for which they were rewarded
with the building of a dervish lodge. Gülsoy, Girit’in Fethi, 258–59.
62. Kürd Hatib, Risāle, fol. 8b.
63. For example, Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fol. 68b.
64. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 3 1 8.
65. Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 85b; Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :59; Naima, Tarih-
i Naima, 6:237.
Solakzade, Tarih-i Al-i Osman, fol. 488a.
Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 6:223.
Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 11 7.
Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 777b; Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :226.
Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 778b.
Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fols. 59b, 37a–b.
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