index 327
Eyüp ceremonial visit of, 31–32, 35–36
favorite Qur’anic verses of, 107–8
gender roles regarding, 141, 285n 7
ghaza/jihad debate and, 21
as ghazi, 12, 145–47, 164–67
ghazi status loss for, 225
harsh winter and, 234–35
historical consciousness of, 8, 148
historical epoch of, 6
historiography and, 19–20, 140, 261n 48
history’s view of, 19–20, 139, 261n 48
as hunter, 159–60, 165, 180–85, 232
hunting conversion link and, 10
as intelligent and skeptical, 109
jihad and, 147
legacy of, 23–24, 253–54, 255
legacy preparation of, 106–9
Mehmed, Lari, and, 114
Mehmed, Vani, and, 111–12, 150–51
military coup against, 236–37
military exploits and, 148
military rise and fall of, 11
Muhammad references and, 147
Mustafa’s, Kara, execution and, 223–24
Ottoman historians view of, 139
overview regarding, 8, 12
peace treaties and conquests of, 212
piety and conversion link and, 7
piety, newfound, and, 10–11
pious practices of, 108–9
plotting against, 235
posthumous reputation of, 240–44
predecessors compared with, 247
prints of, 148–50
reign characteristics of, 12
reign end and, 227–29
religious neglect and, 233
Rycaut on, 242, 298n 16
sacred space conversion by, 8–9
as sedentary, 244
shrine destruction by, 114, 280n 37
sign language and, 187, 293n 24
Sufi infl uence and, 68–70, 112, 226–27
sultanate and, 20
tomb and, 253
treasury challenges and, 50
two dimensions of, 187
Tzevi and, 126–27, 128–29
Uyvar citadel conquest and, 153
war correspondence of, 152–55war involvement of, 152–53, 155–56, 168
Mehmed, Kadızade, 64
background on and views of, 65–67,
270 n 15
coffee and tobacco consumption and,
66–67
death of, 69
resistance to, 67–68
Sufi s and, 66
Mehmed, Köprülü, 64
death of, 96, 277n 77
iron fi st policies of, 76
Janissaries and, 76–77
Kadızadelis and, 75–77
modern histories and, 78–79, 273n 83
motivations of, 79
outlaws Mehmed, Üstüvani, 75–76
sultanate regarding, 79–80
Venetian navy defeat and, 77–78
Mehmed, Lari, 114, 280n 33
Mehmed, Raşid, 128
Mehmed, Seyyid, 130 –31
Mehmed, Sohrab, 203
Mehmed, Üstüvani
coercion and violence and, 71
outlawing of, 75–76
sultan infl uence and, 70
Mehmed, Vani, 69
Abdi Pasha and, 109
Ahmed, Fazıl, and, 7, 109 –10
background of, 7, 110
Constantinople and, 207
conversion and conquest link and, 206
Crete correspondence and, 155
duty and, 209
enjoining good and forbidding wrong
and, 115–19
incitement to conquest conversion by,
206–10
infl uence loss of, 226
as infl uential mediator, 109–13
Isaac/Turk link by, 207–8
Manzikert battle and, 208–9
Mehmed IV and, 111–12, 150 –51
Mehmed, Lari, and, 114
military campaigns and, 11, 112
Mısri and, 115
overview regarding, 105
piety and conversion link and, 6
poems on Mehmed IV by, 150 –51