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  1. Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:396.

  2. Karaçelebizade, Ravzatü’l-ebrâr zeyli, 3 1 , 52–53, 1 65–67.

  3. Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fols. 24a, 1 40a, 38a. The former sheikhulislam was


dismissed from offi ce in 1651 , the latter in 1 662.



  1. Baysun, “Mehmed IV,” 550.

  2. Zilfi , The Politics of Piety, 1 77.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, Topkapı Museum Palace Library, MS. Hazine 1 468,
    fols. 25a, 46a.

  5. Ibid., fol. 46b.

  6. Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:383; Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 5:268.

  7. Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:383.

  8. Evliya Çelebi, Seyahatname, quoted in Dankoff, An Ottoman Mentality, 70, 7 1.

  9. Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 5:54–59.

  10. 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.



  1. Solakzade, Tarih-i Al-i Osman, fol. 487b.

  2. Ibid.; Vecihi Hasan Çelebi, Tarih-i Vecihi, fols. 85a–87a; Silahdar, Tarih-i Silah-


dar, 1 :59.



  1. 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.




  1. Solakzade, Tarih-i Al-i Osman, fol. 488a.




  2. Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 6:223.




  3. Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 11 7.




  4. Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 777b; Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :226.




  5. Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 778b.




  6. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fols. 59b, 37a–b.




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