Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans' inheritance to the Roman Empire through his conquest of Constantinople.

In 1666, he was brought before Sultan Mehmed IV and given an ultimatum: convert to Islam or face death. To the shock of his followers, Zevi chose to embrace Islam. His conversion marked a dramatic ...

As The New York Times reports, a photo in which present-day Ukrainian soldiers assume the poses of the Cossacks in Ilya Repin’s 1891 painting “Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of ...