The physician was apparently a member of the court faction punished for supporting
peace with Spain and not France.
31. İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı, Osmanlı Devletinin Saray Teşkilatı, 2nd ed. (Ankara:
Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, 1 984), 364–65.
- Ibid.
- ‘Ayn ‘Ali Efendi, Kavânîn-i Âl-i Osman der Hülâsa-i Mezâmin-i Defter-i Dîvân
(Istanbul: Enderun Kitabevi, 1 979), 94. - Eyyubî Efendi Kânûnnâmesi, Tahlil ve Metin, ed. Abdülkadir Özcan (Istanbul:
Eren, 1 988), 36. - BOA, Kâmil Kepeci Tasnifi , Küçük Ruznamçe (KR, Palace Salary Register) 340 1 ,
3411 , 34 1 3, 34 1 5, 3427. - BOA, KR: 34 11 , March 3, 1 667. See also BOA, KR: 3422.
- Uzunçarşılı, Osmanlı Devletinin Saray Teşkilatı, 364–65; BOA, KR: 3439.
- BOA, KR: 340 1 , 3427.
- İzzet Kumbaracızade, Hekim-Başı odası, İlk eczane, Baş-Lala kulesi (Istanbul:
Kader Matbaası, 1 933), 27; Epstein, The Ottoman Jewish Communities, 30.
BOA, KR: 34 1 2, 3437.
Heyd, “Moses Hamon,” 1 54; Kumbaracızade, Hekim-Başı odası, 33; Galanté,
Médecins juifs, 1 5; BOA, KR: 3438, 3439.
Avigdor Levy, The Sephardim in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton, NJ: Darwin
Press, 1991 ), 76.
See Galanté, Médecins juifs, 1 3– 1 4. BOA, KR: 34 1 3 is his fi rst listing on the
palace payroll. In Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 29 1 a, the author notes that a writ was
issued so that Hayatizade could replace the deceased Salih Efendi as head physician on
August 3 1 , 1 669.
- For a discussion of the term see Avram Galanté, Esther Kyra d’après de nou-
veaux documents (Constantinople: Fr. Haim, 1 926), 3–5. - B. Lewis, The Jews of Islam, 1 44; Peirce, The Imperial Harem, 225–26; Esther
Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue, Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community,
14th–20th Centuries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 38.
Kürd Hatib, Risāle, fol. 1 8b.
Jews also remarked on her power. In the responsa of Rabbi Shlomo ben Avra-
ham HaKohen we fi nd, “The frightening and menacing lady, she has the power and the
name in kings, courts, and castles, and her small word is enough to cause damage in
anything she wishes, to his body or his capital.” Quoted in Minna Rozen, A History of the
Jewish Community in Istanbul: The Formative Years, 1453–1566 (Leiden: Brill, 2002), 206
n. 36.
Peirce, Imperial Harem, 242–43; Rozen, A History of the Jewish Community in
Istanbul, 206–7.
This is corroborated by Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 2:578.
Kürd Hatib, Risāle, fols. 1 8b– 1 9b.
Zilfi , The Politics of Piety, 1 55, 1 80 n. 1 09; Kumbaracızade, Hekim-Başı odası,
The mansion remained in the family for more than two hundred years. In the nine-
teenth century, when the family had no more sons, the daughters married into the
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