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

had been captured. The Ottoman dynasty had much earlier divided Muhammad’s ban-

ner into three pieces, sending one on campaign and keeping two in the treasury.

40. Anonymous, A Description of Vienna.


41. Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 78, 80; Nermin, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü,
    1 24, 1 27.


42. The Letter of the King of Poland, To His Excellency the Marquess De Grana, From
    the Turkish Camp in the Viziers Tent at Vienna, the 13th of September 1683 (London: Walker
    Davis, 1 683).


43. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 2: 11 7.


44. Abdi Pasha, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 2b.


45. Baysun, “Mehmed IV,” 552.


46. Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 79–80; Nermin, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü,
    1 25, 1 26.


47. Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 8 1 , 82–86; Nermin, Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü,
    1 29–32.


48. Nihadi, Tarih-i Nihadi, fol. 225b.


49. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 2:9 1 –92.


50. Baysun, “Mehmed IV,” 554.


51. Kreutel, Kara Mustafa vor Wien, 87, 88; Viyana Kuşatması Günlüğü, 1 35–36, 1 37, 1 38.


52. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 2: 11 8. Subsequent references to this source are cited
    parenthetically throughout this section.


53. Nihadi, Tarih-i Nihadi, fol. 225a.


54. Anonymous, Vekāyi‘nāme, fol. 48b.


55. The tomb and mosque were destroyed in a nineteenth-century earthquake.
    Ayvansarâyî Hüseyîn Efendi, Hadîkatü’l-cevâmi‘ (Istanbul Câmileri ve Diğer Dînî–Sivil

Mi‘mârî Ya pılar), hazırlayan Ahmed Nezih Galitekin (Istanbul: İşaret Yayınları, 200 1 ),
575–76; The Garden of the Mosques, 478.
56. BOA, Ali Emiri Tasnifi , Mehmed IV: 1 0290, August 23, 1 686; 1 0288, Au-
gust 23, 1686; 1 0282, September 1 8, 1 686.

57. BOA, Ali Emiri Tasnifi , Mehmed IV: 1 0292, August 24, 1686; 10293, Septem-
    ber 14, 1686.


58. BOA, Ali Emiri Tasnifi , Mehmed IV: 1 0278, September 18, 1686.


59. BOA, Ali Emiri Tasnifi , Mehmed IV: 1 0274, August 23, 1686. This town is
    adjacent to the Rhodope region, which witnessed wide-scale conversion to Islam during
    this period.


60. BOA, Ali Emiri Tasnifi , Mehmed IV: 1 0280, September 11 , 1 686.

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1. Silahdar, Tarih-i Silahdar, 2:24 1. Subsequent references to this source are cited

parenthetically throughout this section.

2. Silahdar had previously modifi ed the term “hunting” with the phrase “accord-
   ing to ancient custom,” or “in a legal manner.” The fi rst linked the sultan to precedent,
   the second gave legitimacy to the activity.

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