Mehmet IV Sultan of Turkey

Her proselytising effort was courteously received. The Sultan apparently recognised and acknowledged the spiritual truth in MF 's speech. It also brought her an enduring fame, chiefly within the bounds of her own Quaker faith.

The reception in Izmir of MF and her associates shows that Quakers were as unacceptable to the English establishment abroad as at home. Her celebrated audience with Mehmet IV was reported in print a few...

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(that is, the earliest Quakers or members of the Society of Friends to undertake preaching journeys abroad), remained unpublished except for some strongly politicized letters and a one-sixth...

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.

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...