Topkapı Palace Museum Archive, IV Mehmed, No. E., Ar. 11 679. The docu-
ment is dated November 3, 1 676.
Rycaut writes, “Wine, that great abomination to the Turkish law, which four
years past was by the Imperial Decree forbidden under pain of Death and a thousand Ex-
ecrations and Curses, was now the common Drink, the Vizier himself having been ex-
cessively intemperate therein, had extinguished the natural heat of his stomach, which
could be warmed by no less heat than what proceeds from Aqua Vitae; by which de-
bauchery and indisposition all Businesses were slowly and negligently dispatched, and
according to his example the Commanders and Ministers acted in their Affairs, which
in former times being always dispatched by nine a Clock in the Morning, that became
now the time and hour of rising.” Rycaut, The Present State of the Ottoman Empire, 25 1.
Covel adds that he had found the grand vizier “crop sick” (sick with repletion) several
times. Covel, “Covel’s Diary,” 245.
Topkapı Palace Museum Archive, IV Mehmed, No. E., Ar. 11 679.
Gökyay, Evliya Çelebi Seyahatnâmesi, 11 7.
EI^2 , s.v. “Köprülü,” by M. Tayyib Gökbilgin and R. C. Repp.
Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fols. 405a–b.
Hüseyin Behçeti, Mirac’üz-zafer, fols. 3a–b, 6b.
Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fols. 4 1 2a–b.
Hüseyin Behçeti, Mirac’üz-zafer, fols. 52b, 53a.
Befi tting tribal customs of that era, all men were executed in the market at
Medina, and the women and children were sold into slavery.
This refers to the oasis of Khaybar.
Hüseyin Behçeti, Mirac’üz-zafer, fol. 56a.
The “faithless who will not believe” are the Banu Qurayza.
Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fols. 340a–b. Nearly three decades later, the re-
turning Poles disinterred the Muslim corpses. Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, The Otto-
man Survey Register of Podolia (ca. 1681), Defter-i Mufassal-i Eyalet-i Kamaniçe, part 1 :
Text, Translation, and Commentary, Studies in Ottoman Documents Pertaining to
Ukraine and the Black Sea Countries (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
2004), 3:5 1.
Kołodziejczyk, The Ottoman Survey Register of Podolia, 3:5 1.
Naima, Tarih-i Naima, 4: 1 50.
Kritovoulos, History of Mehmed the Conqueror, in The Islamic World, ed. William
H. McNeill and Marilyn Robinson Waldman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1 983), 312–36; 336.
Hajji Ali Efendi, Fethname-i Kamaniça, fol. 89b.
Yusuf Nabi, Fethname-i Kamaniça, fol. 45b. Ibn Bibi records similar senti-
ment in a speech of the twelfth-century Seljuk Sultan Suleimanshah II: “Let me convert
their churches and monasteries to masjids and madrasas. Let me make the inhabitants
of that land hear the chanting of the verses of the Qur’an in place of the sound of the
organ. Let me make them hear the call of the muezzin proclaiming God’s unity and
Muhammad’s prophecy rather than the sound of cymbal and church bell.” Ibn Bibi,
