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43. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :2 1 8.


44. Kürd Hatib, Risāle, fols. 1 9b–20a. The fi re actually occurred in 1 070.


45. Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 1 24, 1 76.


46. Nasuh Paşazade Ömer Bey, Turhan Vâlide Sultan Vakıfnamesi, fols. 1 7b– 1 8a.


47. Despite the distinction in Arabic between synagogue (kanis) and church (kan-

isa), the single term kanisa (kenise in Turkish) is used in the Shariah court records to
refer to both church and synagogue.

48. Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 1 25.


49. Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Voyage d’un Botaniste, vol. 2: La Turquie, la Géor-

gie, l’Arménie, notes and bibliography by Stéphane Yerasimos (Paris: FM/La Découverte,
1 982), 27.

50. Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 1 25. While rebuilding the harem after a
    fi re in 1 665, the valide sultan had innovative Iznik tilework depicting Mecca and Me-

dina placed in the eunuch’s mosque and her oratory. She also had a tile depicting a
tented camp of pilgrims on the hajj installed in the corridor near the prince’s quarters.

Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :384; Godfrey Goodwin, A History of Ottoman Architecture
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971 ), 355–56.
51. Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 1 93a; Raşid, Tarih-i Raşid, 1 : 1 06–7; Kürd Hatib,
Risāle, fols. 22b–24b.

52. 
    

    Kürd Hatib, Risāle, fol. 22b.

    
    


53. 
    

    Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :390.

    
    


54. 
    

    Kürd Hatib, Risāle, fols. 22b–24b.

    
    


55. 
    

    Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 1 24.

    
    


56. 
    

    Gülrü Necipoğlu-Kafadar, “The Süleymaniye Complex in Istanbul: An Inter-
    pretation,” Muqarnas 3 ( 1 985): 11 3.

    
    


57. 
    

    Thys-Şenocak, “The Yeni Valide Complex at Eminönü,” 6 1.

    
    


58. 
    

    Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 1 25.

    
    


59. 
    

    Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 4:80–8 1. Before a hunting trip Ibrahim stated, “I am
    going to hunt and ride about. If the viziers and leading magistrates come as well, the

    
    

commoners will fl ock there from every direction and hinder the outing. Let those who
have complaints and claims go to the Divan.”

60. 
    

    Paul Monod, review of Brian Weiser, Charles II and the Politics of Access (Roches-
    ter, NY: Boydell Press, 2003), American Historical Review 11 0 (December 2005): 1 592.

    
    


61. 
    

    De Tournefort, Voyage, 28.

    
    


62. 
    

    Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 1 24.

    
    


63. 
    

    Thys-Şenocak, “The Yeni Valide Mosque Complex of Eminönü,” 74–75.

    
    


64. 
    

    Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 1 25.

    
    


65. 
    

    Thys-Şenocak, “The Yeni Valide Mosque Complex at Eminönü,” 67.

    
    


66. 
    

    For comparison, see Necipoğlu-Kafadar, “The Süleymaniye Complex.”

    
    


67. 
    

    Wolper, Cities and Saints, 3.

    
    


68. 
    

    Yerasimos, “La Communauté juive,” 11 9–20, 1 24, 1 30.

    
    


69. 
    

    Mark Epstein, The Ottoman Jewish Communities and Their Role in the Fifteenth
    and Sixteenth Centuries, Islamkundliche Untersuchungen Bd. 56. (Freiburg: K. Schwarz,
    1 980), 28–30.

    
    

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