Editing Ahmed III (section)

==Early life and education==
Sultan Ahmed was born on 30 December 1673. His father was Sultan [[Mehmed IV]], and his mother was [[Gülnuş Sultan]], originally named Evmenia.<ref>{{cite book |author= Baker, Anthony E |title=The Bosphorus |publisher=Redhouse Press |year=1993 |page=146 |isbn=975-413-062-0 |quote= The Valide Sultan was born Evmania Voria, daughter of a Greek priest in a village near Rethymnon on Crete. She was captured by the Turks when they took Rethymnon in 1645. }}</ref> His birth occurred in Hacıoğlupazarı, where Mehmed stayed to hunt on his return from Poland in 1673, while Gülnuş was pregnant at that time.{{sfn|Sakaoğlu|2015|p=295}} In 1675, He and his brother, Prince Mustafa (future [[Mustafa II]]) were circumcised. During the same ceremony their sisters [[Hatice Sultan (daughter of Mehmed IV)|Hatice Sultan]] and Fatma Sultan were married to Musahip Mustafa Pasha and [[Kara Mustafa Pasha]] respectively.{{sfn|Uluçay|2011|p=110}} The celebrations lasted 20 days.{{sfn|Sakaoğlu|2015|p=286}}

He grew up in the [[Edirne Palace]]. His schooling began during one of the sporadic visits of the court to Istanbul, following a courtly ceremony called ''bad-i basmala'', which took place on 9 August 1679 in the Istavroz Palace. He was brought up in the imperial harem in Edirne with a traditional princely education, studying the Qur’an, the hadiths (traditions of Muhammad), and the fundamentals of Islamic sciences, history, poetry and music under the supervision of private tutors.{{sfn|Keskiner|2012|p=47}} One of his tutors was chief mufti [[Feyzullah Efendi]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Jane|last=Hathaway|title=The Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Harem: From African Slave to Power-Broker|publisher=Cambridge University Press|date=August 30, 2018|pages=133|isbn=978-1-107-10829-5}}</ref>

Ahmed was apparently curious and intellectual in nature, spending most of his time reading and practising calligraphy. The poems that he wrote manifest his profound knowledge of poetry, history, Islamic theology and philosophy. He was also interested in calligraphy, which he had studied with the leading court calligraphers, primarily with Hafız Osman Efendi (died 1698), who influenced his art immensely, and, therefore, practiced it because of the influence of his elder brother, the future Sultan [[Mustafa II]], who also became a notable calligrapher.{{sfn|Keskiner|2012|p=47}}

During his princehood in Edirne, Ahmed made friends with a bright officer-scribe, [[Nevşehirli Damat Ibrahim Pasha|Ibrahim]], from the city of [[Nevşehir]], who was to become one of the outstanding Grand Viziers of his future reign. From 1687, following the deposition of his father, he lived in isolation for sixteen years in the palaces of Edirne and Istanbul. During this period he dedicated himself to calligraphy and intellectual activities.{{sfn|Keskiner|2012|p=47-8}}{{sfn|Sakaoğlu|2015|p=296}}