- Baysun, “Mehmed IV,” Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 364a; BOA, Ali Emiri Tas-
nifi , Mehmed IV: 11 69–72, 1 986; Hüseyin Behçeti, Mirac’üz-zafer, Süleymaniye Library,
Esad Efendi MS. 2368, fols. 52b–53a, 56a. - Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 47a.
- Peirce, Imperial Harem, 1 94.
- Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 47b.
- Hasluck, Christianity and Islam, 1 :4 1 9–23.
- Risāla fī hakk al-farż wa al-Sunna wa al-bid‘a fī ba‘z al-‘amal, Suleimaniye Li-
brary, MS. Lala İsmail 685/ 1 ; Risāla fī karāhat al-jahr bi al-zikr, Suleimaniye Library, MS.
Hacı Beşir Ağa 406/3. - Risāla fī karāhat al-jahr bi al-zikr, fols. 1 86b– 1 88b; Erdoğan Pazarbaşı, Vânî
Mehmed Efendi ve Araisü’l-Kur’an, Van Belediyesi Kültür ve Sosyal İşler Müdürlüğü, no.
5 (Ankara: Acar Matbaası, 1 997), 1 79–85. - Hagen, “Ottoman Understandings of the World,” 246.
- Pazarbaşı, Vânî Mehmed Efendi ve Araisü’l-Kur’an, 1 83–84, quoting Vani Meh-
med Efendi, Araisu’l-Kur’an, Kayseri, Raşid Efendi Kütüphanesi 2 1 525, fols. 26a–27b.
31. For the decision to outlaw the public performance of Sufi rituals, see Zilfi ,
“The Kadızadelis,” 263; Baha Doğramacı, Niyazi–yi Mısrî: Hayatı ve Eserleri (Ankara:
Kadıoğlu Matbaası, 1 988), 9.- The entry is dated February 24, 1 665.
- Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :378; Raşid, Tarih-i Raşid, 1 :94. See also Ahmed
Yaşar Ocak, Osmanlı Toplumunda Zındıklar ve Mülhidler (15.–17. Yüzyıllar) (Istanbul:
Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları 60, 1 998), 245–47; Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman
Empire, 245–46. Rycaut claimed that Lari Mehmed had a peculiar proof that there was
no God: “One of this Sect called Mahomet Effendi [sic], a rich man, Educated in the
knowledge of the Eastern Learning, I remember, was in my time executed for impu-
dently proclaiming his blasphemies against the being of a Deity; making it in his ordi-
nary discourse, an argument against the being of a God, for that either there was none
at all, or else not so wise as the Doctors preached he was, in suffering him to live who
was the greatest enemy and scorner of a Divine Essence that ever came into the world.”
He did not live long after this boastful claim.
- Ocak, Zındı klar ve Mülhidler, 247. Among his confi scated effects were books
“written in an infi del script.”
35. Raşid, Tarih-i Raşid, 1 : 1 39–40; Zilfi , “The Kadızadelis,” 263.
36. The entry is dated October 3, 1 667.
37. Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, 269. “I remember at Adriano-
ple to have seen the ruine of one of these Monasteries situated on a pleasant Hill, and
in good Air, that oversees the whole City and Plains round about; which upon enquiry
I understand was demolished by the famous Vizier Kuperli, because it was discovered to
be a Rendezvous of the lewd Women of the Town, and a Stew where the young Gallants
debauched the Wives of the richest Turks, to whom their Husbands had given liberty in
honour to the Sanctity of the place, to be often present at the devotion of the Sufi es; but
their way of practice being too publick and scandalous, the Foundation of their House
by the order of the Vizier was razed to the ground.”
280 notes to pages 112–114