With the ſame Views he put down the Minarets and order'd all to be called to the Moſques at the Hours of Prayer, by ſounding their wind Inſtruments and beating of Drums. By this means he oblig'd the Miſſionaries by ſilencing the blaſphemous Proclamations of the Muezins or Criers from the Minarets, who us'd to call the Turks to their Naama or Prayers; and alſo made the People leſs zealous and furious, for the Honour of their Prophet and his Religion, who us'd to have their Ears ſtill dinn'd, and their Zeal inflam'd with the proclaiming their Mahomet for the Prophet of God.
With the ſame ſubtle management, he confin'd to their own Towns all the vagabond Dervices, who us'd to run thro' the Provinces poſſeſt with the hotteſt Spirit of Mahometiſm, and turn'd many of the Monaſteries of thoſe lazy Drones (who had all the Zeal and Ignorance of our worſt kind of Monks in them) to Caravanſeras or Inns for Travellers, or elſe into Timariots to maintain ſuch a number of Soldiers.
He ſent ſuch Orders thro' the Empire and appointed ſuch faithful Miniſters to execute them, (many of whom were diſguis'd Chriſtians and even Jeſuits,) that the open Profeſſi-on
