Honored by the Glory of Islam. Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe

crisis. Marshall G. S. Hodgson, Rethinking World History: Essays on Europe, Islam, and

World History, ed. Edmund Burke III (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1 993).

89. Halil Inalcik, “The Rise of the Ottoman Empire,” in The Cambridge History of
    Islam, ed. P. M. Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton, and Bernard Lewis (New York: Cambridge
    University Press, 1 970), 1 :295.


90. Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 6:294.

chapter 4

1. Irene Bierman, Writing Signs: The Fatimid Public Text (Berkeley: University of

California Press, 1 998). See especially chap. 1 , “Preliminary Considerations.”

2. Wolper, Cities and Saints, 3.


3. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fol. 6 1 b.


4. Mustafa Cezar, “Osmanlı Devrinde İstanbul Yapılarında Tahribat Yapan
   Yangınlar ve Tabii Afetler,” Türk Sanat Tarihi Araştırma ve İncelemeleri 1 (Istanbul, 1 963):
   327–4 1 4; Mantran, Istanbul, 36; EI², s.v. “Istanbul,” by Halil Inalcik.


5. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fols. 60a–6 1 a.


6. Ibid., fol. 6 1 a.


7. Vecihi Hasan Çelebi, Tarih-i Vecihi, fol. 1 44b.


8. Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fols. 1 28b– 1 29b.


9. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fol. 6 1 b.
   1 0. Vecihi Hasan Çelebi, Tarih-i Vecihi, fol. 1 45a.


10. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fol. 62a.
    1 2. Nasuh Paşazade Ömer Bey, Turhan Vâlide Sultan Vakıfnamesi, Suleimaniye
    Library, Istanbul, MS. Turhan Vâlide Sultan 1 50, fol. 1 7b; Vecihi Hasan Çelebi, Tarih-i

Vecihi, fol. 1 45a.
1 3. Vecihi Hasan Çelebi, Tarih-i Vecihi, fols. 1 45a, 62b.

1 4. Nihadi, Tarih-i Nihadi, fol. 1 88a.
1 5. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fols. 62b, 63a.

1 6. Ibid., fol. 63b.
1 7. Vecihi Hasan Çelebi, Tarih-i Vecihi, fol. 1 45b.

1 8. Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 4 1 a.
1 9. Mehmed Halife, Tarih-i Gilmani, fol. 64a.

20. Nihadi, Tarih-i Nihadi, fol. 1 88b.


21. Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 1 24.


22. Kürd Hatib, Risāle, fol. 20a. Silahdar adds that it was the advice of the head
    architect Mustafa Efendi that sealed the case for Eminönü. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar,

1 :2 1 8.

23. Kürd Hatib, Risāle, fol. 20a.


24. On rebuilding Catholic churches in Galata, see Louis Mitler, “The Genoese in
    Galata: 1 453– 1 682,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 1 0 ( 1 979): 86–9 1. But

see also Inalcik, “Ottoman Galata.” On the dislocation of Jews, see Uriel Heyd, “The
Jewish Community of Istanbul in the Seventeenth Century,” Oriens 6 ( 1 953): 3 11 – 1 3;

Avram Galanté, Histoire des juifs d’Istanbul (Istanbul: Imprimerie Hüsnutabat, 1941 ),

274 notes to pages 80–85