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documents (continued)

gold dust or ink and, 5, 197–98

integrated use of, 194

narrative versus archival, 192, 193–94

Ottoman archival, 3, 4–5

dreams, 188–89

dress, 10

drought, 231–32

drover conversion account

by Abdi Pasha, 185–87

conclusions regarding, 189

drover’s dream in, 188–89

questions raised by, 188

sultan’s depiction in, 187

dust, gold, 5, 197–98

duty, 209

economy
alcohol trade and, 117–18
political, 43–44
Edirne
Istanbul versus, 237–38, 246
jihad and, 11
Mehmed IV and, 145
Emetullah, Rabia Gülnüş, 101
Eminönü mosque complex
completing, 91–93
cost of, 87, 275n 32
decoration of, 91
economic signifi cance of, 92
endowment deed and, 90
expulsion of Jews from, 87, 88–91,
102, 278n 102
historical consciousness regarding,
93–94
illumination of, 95–96
Islamization and, 85, 91–93
Muslim property loss to, 96
Mustafa, Kurdish Preacher, on, 89
opening, 91–92
Safi ye Sultan and, 86
site of, 93
tourism and, 278n 98
Turhan and, 85, 86, 91–93
unfi nished, 86–87
endowment deed, 90
enjoining good and forbidding wrong
Baha’i Efendi and, 70
Islamizing Istanbul and, 82
Mehmed, Vani, and, 115–19

Murad IV and, 66–67

Muslim scholars and, 65–66

Qur’anic command of, 65, 270n 9

The Essence of History (Agha)

invocation in, 151

Mehmed IV correspondence in,

152–54

mujahid regarding, 151–52

title regarding, 287n 46

Uyvar citadel conquest in, 153

eunuch, chief, 143–44

Europe campaign, central

Ahmed, Fazıl, 153–54

Ali, Hajji, and, 163

background on, 163–64

ghaza and, 164–65

outset of, 167

sacred space conversion in, 169

surrender terms in, 168–69

victory in, 168

weather challenges of, 167–68

Europe, central

Conquest and conversion in, 173–78

Ottoman advance and, 210

Ottoman Empire and, 23

Soldier and civilian conversions and,

177–78, 291n 62

Events of Calamities of Vienna (Agha,

Ahmed), 213–14, 217, 295n 14

external conversion, 13–14

Eyüp

district of, 31, 35

Grand Mosque in, 35

faith, 15

famine, 231–32

Fevzi, Hayatizade Mustafa, 134, 284n 43

fi nancial quandaries

bribery and, 51

corrupt practices and, 50–52

countryside crime or rebellion and,

52–53

currency abandonment and, 52

devalued coinage and, 48–49, 52

ruin of Anatolia and, 51–52

sale of offi cial positions and, 50–51

1650 merchant uprising and, 49–50

treasury income and expenses and, 50

fi re of 1660

burning candles and, 84