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61. Ibid., fol. 1 54a.

62. Ibid., fol. 1 56a.


63. Ibid.


64. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :495.


65. Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, fols. 1 58b, 1 59a.


66. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :506.


67. Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, fol. 1 70a.


68. Ibid.; Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 784a.


69. Gülsoy, Girit’in Fethi, 1 97–98.


70. Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, fol. 1 70b.


71. Ibid., fols. 29 1 a, 1 78a.


72. Using language similar to Kurdish Preacher Mustafa, Hasan Agha wrote,
    “This great valide is such a pious and chaste Muslim lady that she has no equal.
    For ten years she continually fasted and prayed from night until morning.” Ibid.,
    fol. 1 78b.


73. Ibid., fol. 1 79a. In contrast to narratives written at the time of the siege, critical
    voices appeared years later. Unlike Hasan Agha, who was writing to honor Fazıl Ahmed
    Pasha, Silahdar relates accounts of rebellion among the ranks of soldiers besieging Can-
    dia. Commanders complained that they spent as much time fi ghting their troops as the
    enemy. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :498–50 1.


74. EI², s.v. “Kandiya,” by C. J. Heywood; Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman
    Empire, 2 1 8.


75. Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 783a.


76. Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 293a.


77. Ibid., fol. 294a.


78. Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, 22 1 –22.


79. Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 298a.


80. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :557.


81. Whereas Greene emphasizes the role of religious conversion in changing the

demography of the island, arguing that there was rapid and massive conversion to
Islam in the wake of the Ottoman conquest, Gülsoy does not mention religious conver-

sion in his study, but instead focuses on the Christians’ exodus and the colonization of
the island by Muslims. Greene, A Shared World, 39–44; Gülsoy, Girit’in Fethi, 246–52,

279–82.

82. 
    

    Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :525–26, 544–48.

    
    


83. 
    

    Ibid., 1 :525–26; Greene, A Shared World, 78–87; Gülsoy, Girit’in Fethi, 252–67.

    
    


84. 
    

    Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 1 :525–26.

    
    


85. 
    

    Defterdar, Zübde-i Vekayiat, 1 5– 1 6.

    
    


86. 
    

    Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, fol. 1 85a.

    
    


87. 
    

    Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:259–6 1 ; Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 77 1 a.

    
    


88. 
    

    Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:259–6 1.

    
    


89. 
    

    Katip Çelebi, Fezleke, 2:286–89; Ahmed Dede, Jami’ al-Duwal, fol. 77 1 a.

    
    


90. 
    

    Dankoff, An Ottoman Mentality, 49.

    
    


91. 
    

    Hasan Agha, Cevahir et-Tarih, fol. 11 7b.

    
    

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