Place Names, Subjects, Terms 583
“Beylerbey incident” 145
Bid’at 12, 38, 41, 54–55, 121, 125, 176, 183, 200,
235, 238, 250–251, 255, 262, 299, 340,
388, 423, 444–445
See also innovation
Birgi 119, 250
Bitlis 70, 138
Black Sea 63–64, 188, 346, 355, 375, 407n
Bosnia, Bosnians 63, 160, 180, 184, 201, 208,
248n, 260n, 328
Bozcaada (Tenedos) 265, 279, 375
Bribery 40, 53, 56, 155, 159, 164, 166, 173, 176,
182, 193, 196–197, 207–209, 211, 217, 243,
249, 258, 262, 294, 299–301, 306, 324,
336, 352, 367, 438, 445
As a means to acquire posts 175–176,
201–203, 205, 209, 299, 301, 303, 339
Buda 99, 280
Budget, balanced 139–140, 223, 230,
293–294, 304, 313, 315, 318–320, 446
Bulgaria, Bulgarians 29, 201
Bureaucracy 20–21, 129–130, 134, 136, 142,
147, 161, 198, 209, 212–213, 220–222, 226,
231, 234, 253, 264, 267, 276, 282, 283n,
284, 301, 307, 314, 331, 333, 336, 343, 345,
350, 354, 359, 362, 364, 370, 374, 410,
429, 452–453
Palace bureaucracy 150, 166, 225, 308,
339, 399, 425
See also scribes
Bursa 69, 73, 105, 115, 118, 146, 201, 271,
373n
Buşatlı family 328
Byzantine Empire 15n, 29–30, 63–64, 110,
129, 222, 286, 296, 307, 318
Thought 13, 33, 62n, 438, 441n, 444n,
448
Cairo 45, 46, 73, 115, 160, 169n, 191n
Caliphate 24, 52, 71, 85, 95, 102, 109, 111–114,
124, 137, 143, 194, 270, 305, 456
Calvinist church 384
Campaigns, advice on 139, 155, 169, 207, 230,
251, 334, 340–341, 351, 375, 398, 402
Canik 346
Capitalism 20
Caspian Sea 144
Caucasus 145, 160, 177n, 383
Causality 364, 368, 435
Celali rebellions 145–147, 154n, 158n, 164,
188, 203, 205, 216–217, 279, 291n, 294,
306
Central Asia 13, 44, 57, 65–66, 91n, 124, 231,
441
Centralization 39, 64, 208, 331, 373, 382,
431
Opposition against 39, 70
China 178, 222, 307, 422n
Christians 32, 59, 111, 277, 296, 353, 363, 388,
390, 394–395, 397–398, 405–406, 417,
446
Ottoman 13, 26, 104, 154–155, 183n, 259,
265, 283, 300, 329, 383, 425–426
Christian notables (kocabaşıs) 351
See also Europe; zimmis
Circle of justice 91–92, 93, 96, 135–136, 181,
196, 205, 220, 314, 324, 336, 339, 368,
438, 440, 442, 456
“City boys” 201, 203, 207
Clemency see mildness
Clothing laws see dress codes
Coffee, coffeehouses 158n, 183–184, 189, 223,
231, 236, 239, 295, 298, 355–357, 373,
415, 421–422
Coinage see monetary problems
“Commanding right and forbidding wrong”
see emr-i maruf ve nehy-i münker
Commerce 82–83, 175, 304–305, 320, 360,
373, 407n, 409
Practiced by the askeri 41, 89, 176–177,
262, 283, 320–321, 324, 367, 378,
417–418, 451
Confiscation (müsadere) 312, 349, 374, 427
Of monastery properties 104
Conscription 362–363, 397, 402–403, 408,
410–411, 413, 431, 451
“Constitutionalism” 148, 157, 187, 192–193,
221, 225, 231, 284, 361, 460
Consultation 127–128, 132–133, 184, 205,
253–257, 303, 324, 338, 340–341, 346,
352n, 379–380, 389, 412, 446, 452–453
Contract documents, political 453
Corfu 152
Cosmographies 40, 123n
Cossacks 188
Courage, as a cardinal virtue 77–78