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

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  1. Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 47b.

  2. De Tournefort, Voyage, 28; Necipoğlu, The Age of Sinan, 67.

  3. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :352, 354.

  4. Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 1 25.

  5. IŞS 1 0, fol. 1 56b, May 9, 1662. For the purchase of the land, see IŞS 9, fol. 96b,
    August 1 7, 1661. Loss of the lands: IŞS 1 0, fol. 86a, June 3, 1 662, and IŞS 1 0, fols. 82b,
    84b–85a, June 2, 1 662. Property being awarded in lieu of seized property: entries for the
    week of June 2–9, 1 662, in IŞS 1 0, fols. 82a–86b, 88a–89b.

  6. IŞS 9, fol. 95a, June 22, 1 662.

  7. IŞS 9, fol. 82b, June 2, 1 662.

  8. The chronogram for his death was “Köprülü stepped onto the bridge [köprü] of
    the kingdom of non-existence.” Nihadi, Tarih-i Nihadi, fol. 1 88b.

  9. Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, 262. His short-sightedness
    “caused him to knit his brows and pore very intently when any strange person entered
    his presence.” Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 58a; Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi,
    11 7; Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, Topkapı Palace Museum Library, MS. Revan 1 307,
    fols. 3a–b.

  10. Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 78 1 a.

  11. IŞS 9, fols. 83b–96b, 1 42a– 1 57a, 247a–253a; IŞS 1 0, fols. 82a–95a, 1 56b. For


the number of churches, see EI^2 , s.v. “Istanbul,” by Halil Inalcik; Eremya Çelebi, İstanbul
Tarihi; Mantran, Istanbul, 5 1 , 54–55.
81. Inalcik, “Ottoman Galata,” 275–99, 349–50.



  1. See Mantran, Istanbul, 56 1 –62; Eremya Çelebi, İstanbul Tarihi, 223–26. The
    fi ve churches are French Capuchin Saint George, which had formerly been Byzantine
    and then Genoese (IŞS 9, fol. 96b, August 1 7, 1661 ); Italian Saint Francis (San Franc-


esco), Saint Anne (Santa Anna), and a bell tower (IŞS 9, fol. 247a, January 3, 1 662); San
Sebastian (IŞS 9, fol. 96b, August 1 7, 1661 ); and originally Genoese Dominican Saints
Peter and Paul (Santi Apostoli Pietro e Paolo; IŞS 9, fol. 96a, August 1 7, 1661 ), which
became a French church at the beginning of the eighteenth century.



  1. IŞS 9, fols. 96a–b, August 1 7, 1661.

  2. IŞS 1 0, fol. 247a, January 3, 1 662. Among the men are Giovanni son of Carlo,
    Nicola son of Franco, Francesco son of Giovanni, and Domenico son of Giovanni.

  3. Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, 1 95–96.

  4. IŞS 1 0, fol. 1 56b, May 9, 1662.

  5. Under the guise of repairing the roof of the Church of the Nativity in Bethle-
    hem a decade later, for which they had acquired permission, Orthodox Christians “re-
    built a more splendid prayer hall than had ever existed since the Ottoman conquest.”
    Oded Peri, Christianity under Islam in Jerusalem: The Question of the Holy Sites in Early
    Ottoman Times (Boston: Brill, 200 1 ), 94.

  6. Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, fols. 6a–b, 7a–b, 1 7b.

  7. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :276, 282.

  8. Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, 6b.
    9 1. Minkarizade Yahya b. Ömer, Fetāvā-i Minkarizade Efendi, Suleimaniye Library,


MS. Hamidiye 6 1 0, fols. 37a–b.


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