Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mehmet IV, Sultan of Turkey
Standard Name: Mehmet IV,, Sultan of Turkey
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Textual Production | Mary Fisher | MF
delivered orally her most famous text, never written down: her preaching of the word of the Lord before the Sultan Mehmet IV
, ruler of the Islamic Ottoman Empire, at his military encampment near Adrianople. |
Author summary | Mary Fisher | MF
, one of the Valiant Sixty (that is, the earliest Quakers or members of the Society of Friends
to undertake preaching journeys abroad), remained unpublished except for some strongly politicized letters and a one-sixth... |
Travel | Mary Fisher | They travelled via Leghorn in Italy and the Greek island of Zante (or Zakynthos) to Smyrna (now Izmir) in Turkey, the site of a British trading post, where they stayed and pursued their... |
politics | Mary Fisher | |
Literary responses | Mary Fisher |
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