Introduction: conversion of self, others, and sacred space
Inauspicious enthronement
A decade of crisis
Enjoying good and forbidding wrong
Islamizing Istanbul
Conversion to piety, Mehmed IV and preacher Vani Mehmed Efendi
Converting the Jewish prophet and Jewish physicians
Conversion and conquest: Ghazi Mehmed iv and Candia
Conversion and conquest: ghaza in Central and Eastern Europe
Hunting for converts
The failed final jihad, hunting, and conversion
Mehmed's life and legacy, from ghazi to hunter
Conclusion: Islamic rulers and the process of conversion
Postscript: silences and traces of the past.