Chapter 1

1 AH: Anno Hegirae (‘in the year of the hejira’), referring to the lunar-based Islamic calendar, which begins its count from the Islamic New Year in AD 622, the time of the hegira, the migration of the prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina to escape an assassination plot. The Islamic calendar was used across the Ottoman Empire for religious matters alongside the Rumi calendar (‘the Roman calendar’), which was based on the Julian calendar but also adjusted to begin in AD 622.

Chapter 2

1 1100 in the Islamic hijri calendar, or AD 1689.

Chapter 9

1 1094 in the Islamic hijri calendar, or AD 1683.

Chapter 23

1 AD 2017.

Chapter 27

1 AD 1683.

Chapter 45

1 AD 1935.

Chapter 52

1 September, AD 1683.