@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt9qcx4k.14,
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qcx4k.14},
 abstract = {From the Ottoman chronicler Naima (1655–1716) we learn that when, in 1651, Istanbul artisans mass-petitioned the palace against the tyranny and the high taxes exacted by the janissary commanders (aghas), the guards of the latter threatened to kill the complainants. In the events which followed, the aghas rebelled. Yet they could not obtain the support of the heads of the hierarchy of judges cum religious scholars (müftü, kadıasker,and the chief judge of Istanbul), and nor did the city folk support them. On the contrary, people poured into the palace court and the open spaces around Haghia Sophia and},
 author = {Gülay Yılmaz Diko},
 booktitle = {Bread from the Lion's Mouth: Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities},
 edition = {1},
 pages = {175--193},
 publisher = {Berghahn Books},
 title = {Blurred Boundaries between Soldiers and Civilians: Artisan Janissaries in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul},
 year = {2015}
}