index 325stamping out idolatry via, 173–75
synagogue purchases in, 88
Valide Sultan Mosque and, 81–82
Istanbul
Eminönü mosque complex in, 85, 91–93
expulsion of Eminönü Jews in, 87, 88–91
fi re of 1660 in, 81–85
Islamizing of, 81–82, 85–91, 96–102
Neighborhoods and districts of, 31–35
versus other cities, 237–38, 246
population of, 32
sacred space and, 8–9
synagogue purchases in, 88
Istanbul beneath My Wings (Altıoklar), 68
Istinye, 32–33
Janissaries
Hippodrome battle and, 25–29
Mehmed IV’s enthronement and, 29
Mehmed, Köprülü, and, 76–77
murder of Kösem and, 46–47
Mustafa, İpşir, and, 47–48
Osman II and, 238
power, loss of, 47
siege of Candia and, 54–55
1651 overthrow attempt by, 46
1656 revolt by, 56–57
uprising of, 25–29
Jewish space
conversion as conquest and, 93–96
Crete campaign and, 161
Eminönü mosque complex and, 85
interreligious tensions and, 102
Islamization of, 81–82, 85–91
Safi ye Sultan and, 86
synagogue purchases and, 88
unfi nished Eminönü mosque and,
86–87
Jews
alcohol and, 116
Çelebi, Evliya, on, 89–90
Eminönü mosque complex and, 87,
88–91, 102, 278n 102
expulsion of, 9–10, 87, 88–91
Hasköy migration and, 89
Islamizing Istanbul and, 81–82, 85–91
physician conversions and, 9–10,
121–22, 132–38
redistribution of, 94–95
Safavid empire and, 248
Safi ye Sultan and, 86
Tzevi’s conversion and, 9
Tzevi, Shabbatai, and, 9, 123, 255–56
Tzevi’s prophecies and, 123
vulnerability of, 87–88
See also physician(s), palace
jihad, 11–12
chronicle writers and, 12
historiography debate on, 20–21,
261 n52, 262n 55
Mehmed IV and, 147Kabbalah, 124, 282n 10
Kadızadeli movement
Baha’i Efendi and, 70
The Balance of Truth and, 73
Çelebi, Katip, and, 67, 69, 73
coercion or violence and, 71
conversion of self and, 8
Dede, Ahmed, and, 73–74
disappearance versus presence of,
111, 279n 17
expansion of, 9
grand viziers and, 75–77
infl uence loss of, 226
intellectual circles and Muslim factions
and, 72–73
internal conviction versus social action
and, 8, 257n 1
introduction to, 64
Kösem Sultan/Turhan and, 69
Mehmed, Vani, and, 111
modern scholars regarding, 74
Murad IV and, 68–69
opposition to, 67–68, 72–75
origins of, 65–67
outlawing of Mehmed, Üstüvani,
and, 75–76
as outsiders or usurpers, 74–75
piety and conversion link and, 6
1653 book battle and, 72
Sufi persecutions by, 64, 71–72, 73
sultans and, 68–72
Tzevi and, 131
Kamaniça campaign
background on, 164
corpse disinterment after, 173–74,
290 n 36
outset of, 167
sacred space conversion in, 169