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examples; see his collected articles in Studies on the Ottoman Architecture of
the Balkans (Hampshire, Great Britain, 1990). Also note that it was the Sons of
Mihal * who built up the complex of the Seyyid Gazi shrine and some other
"heterodox" sites in that area. Hayreti * , an `Alevi * poet of the early
sixteenth century from Gianitsa, spent most of his life with his patrons among
frontier lords, inducting the Sons of Mihal * and Yahya * ; see M. Cavusoglu *
and A. Tanyeri, intro. to Hayretî, Dîvan (Istanbul, 1981), xi-xv.
63. According to Ebu'l-hayr * , the compiler, Cem would rather listen to the
stories of Sari * Saltuk * than those of the Hamzaname * cycle. While this
implies at one level a preference of "Turkish" over "Arab" heroes, it should
also be read as an affinity felt for a more familiar geography and "history"
since the Saltukname * focuses on the spiritual and military conquest of the
Balkans, which was of course the legacy and continued concern of the Ottomans in
the fifteenth century. To the extent that it is a "Turkish-Arab" dichotomy, one
should recognize that this is not necessarily a question of ethnic stock as such
identities are understood in our time. Sari * Saltuk * is identified in the
beginning as a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad * through the line of the
earliest Muslim warriors that were engaged in Byzantine Anatolia.
64. Saltukname * , ed. Akalin, 2:241-44.
65. Also see Köprülü, "Anadolu Selçuklulari Tarihinin Yerli Kaynaklari," 437
(translated in The Seljuks of Anatolia, 47-48).
66. That Cem had some political ambitions as early as 1473, when he ordered the
compilation of the Saltukname * , also emerges from Angiolello's report of a
rather obscure incident. According to the Vicentine page, who was in Ottoman
service from 1470 to 1483, there was an attempt to enthrone Cem while his father
was on campaign in eastern Anatolia against Akkoyunlu Uzun Hasan * . The exact
nature of the incident can be elucidated only after further research, but there
can be little doubt that the Conqueror took the matter seriously; he put Cem's
advisors to death upon his return. See I. Ursu, ed., Historia Turchescha
(1300-1514) (Bucharest, 1909), 48.
67. V.L. Ménage ("Edirne'li Rûhî," 313-14) points out that Ruhi's * chronicle in
fact breaks off at the point where Selim's * victory looks inevitable. In his La
fondation , S. Yerasimos has already underlined the role of Edirne in the
resistance to Mehmed's * imperial project, on the basis of a number of works,
including the Saltukname * (207-10).
68. Mesa`iru's-su`era * of `Asik * Çelebi, cited in A. S. Levend,
Gazavât-nâmeler ve Mihal-oglu * Ali Bey'in Gazavât-nâmesi (Ankara, 1956), 196.
Epilogue The Creation of an Imperial Political Technology and Ideology
1. An Anonymous Greek Chronicle, 59-60.
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