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Ramberti, Turchi , 135.

Miller, Sublime Porte , 66.

Ibid., 70.

Neşri, Cihân-Nümâ , 2: 710–711.

Pakalın, Deyimleri , 3:331.

Bassano, Costumi , chap. 13.

BOA, D 8030, fs. 1b, 2a.

BOA, Cevdet Saray 1834; Maliyeden Müdevver 774.

Charrière, Négotiations , 1:470.

Rozen, History , 204–205.

Uluçay, Osmanlı sultanlarına , 33.

Andrews and Kalpaklı, Age , 243.

See chap. 5 for Joseph; Potiphar is the king whose wife lusted after Yusuf.

Andrews and Kalpaklı, Age , 243: The letters vav and ya together can connote “alas,” a play on the usual cry for help, “Muslims, come to my aid!”

Havlıoğlu, “On the Margins,” passim.

Andrews and Kalpaklı, Age , 35.

Hammer, Histoire , 5:228.

Solakzade, Tarih , 189.

Report of Genoese Bank of St. George, in Miller, Sublime Porte , 93–94.

Bassano, Costumi , chap. 15.

Busbecq, Letters , 49.

In modern Turkish, cadı ; in Ottoman orthography, cadu.

Sariyannis, “Ghosts,” passim.

Pakalın, Deyimleri , 1:253.

Ostling, “Witchcraft,” 497, passim.

Pakalın, Deyimleri , 1:253.

Kuru, “Representations,” 495.

Alberi, Relazioni , 3:101–102.

Bassano, Costumi , chap. 15.

Hammer, Histoire , 5:211.

Bassano, Costumi , chap. 14.

Bassano, Costumi , chap. 15.

Quoted in Sakaoğlu, Kadın sultanları , 163.

Uzunçarşılı, Osmanlı Tarihi , 2:358; the Turkish word for “job” can also mean “trick.”

Although the phrase “mad arrogance” is von Hammer’s ( Histoire , 5:229), it fits well with the depiction of Ibrahim in the television series.

Mustafa `Ali, Künh , 122b; Ayvansarayı, Garden , 365.

Ayvansarayı, Garden , 31–32.

Alberi, Relazioni , 3:103.

Gökbilgin, “Ibrahim,” 5/2:908.

Turan, “Marriage,” 8.

Ibid., 11–12; Uzunçarşılı, “Kanuni,” passim.

Alberi, Relazioni , 3:95.

Ibid., 3:102–103.

Ibid., 3:104.

Ibid., 3:116.

Ibid., 3:103.

Peçevi, Tarih , 1:63.

Turan, “Marriage,” passim; Uzunçarşılı, “Kanuni,” passim.

Uluçay, Padişahların kadınları , 31–34.

Alberi, Relazioni , 3:103.

Setton, Papacy , 3:152.

Alberi, Relazioni , 3:53–54.

Valensi, Birth , 18; Alberi, Relazioni , 3:xxiii, 6ff.

Valensi, Birth , 19–20; Necipoğlu, “Suleyman,” 404–405.

Alberi, Relazioni , 1:30.

Hammer, Histoire , 5:90–225, passim.

Necipoğlu, “Suleyman,” 410.

Ibid., 408–409.

Peçevi, Tarih , 1:139–140; Solakzade, Tarih , 2:189ff; Celalzade, Geschichte , 277b–287a.

Solakzade, Tarih , 2:187–188.

Şahin, Empire , 166ff. and passim.

Solakzade, Tarih , 1:189.

Alberi, Relazioni , 1:10–13.

Karaman, Figani , 13:57–58.

Dernschwam, Diary , 139–140.

Hammer, Histoire , 5:195.

Bodin, Method , 292–293.

“Ma`ruzat,” 2:338.

Fleischer, “Shadows,” 58ff.

Bassano, Costumi , chap. 15.

TSMA, E 5662, 6036, 6056.

Uluçay, “Notlar,” 255–257.

Veinstein, “Süleyman.”

Alberi, Relazioni , 1:89.

Starkey, English Court , 9.

Feros, “Twin Souls,” 32–33.

Andrews and Kalpaklı, Age , back cover.

Alberi, Relazioni , 3 : 107.

Meisami, “Kings,” passim.

Necipoğlu, Age , 268–280.

Ibid., 271.

Ayvansarayı, Garden , 115.

Ives, Life , 215ff.

Sanderson, “Sundrie,” 77.

Evliya, Narratives , 1:84.

See Kafesçioğlu, Constantinopolis , passim, on Byzantine forums.

Ibid., 216. The artist may have been Gentile Bellini, whose well-known portrait of Mehmed II hangs in the National Gallery in London.

Ibid., 124.

Taşkıran, Hasekinin kitabı , 47. The original document was unavailable to me.

Uluçay, Padişahların kadınları , 45.

Sanderson, “Sundrie,” 436.

Goodwin, History , 187.

Necipoğlu, Age , 275, expresses reservation about the soup kitchen.

Peçevi, Tarih , 1:127.