Mehmed IV

Mehmed IV
Ottoman Caliph Amir al-Mu'minin Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques
Portrait, 1682
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Padishah)
Reign	8 August 1648 – 8 November 1687
Predecessor	Ibrahim
Successor	Suleiman II
Regents	See list Kösem Sultan (8 August 1648 – 2 September 1651) Turhan Sultan (3 September 1651 – 1656)
Born	(1642-01-02)2 January 1642 Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died	6 January 1693(1693-01-06) (aged 51) Edirne, Ottoman Empire
Burial	Tomb of Turhan Sultan, New Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey
Consort	Emetullah Rabia Gülnuş Sultan Others
Issue Among others	Hatice Sultan Mustafa II Ahmed III Ümmügülsüm Sultan Fatma Emetullah Sultan
Names Mehmed bin Ibrahim
Dynasty	Ottoman
Father	Ibrahim
Mother	Turhan Sultan
Religion	Sunni Islam
Tughra

Mehmed IV (Ottoman Turkish: محمد رابع, romanized: Meḥmed-i rābi; Turkish: IV. Mehmed; 2 January 1642 – 6 January 1693), nicknamed as Mehmed the Hunter (Turkish: Avcı Mehmed), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. He came to the throne at the age of six after his father was overthrown in a coup. Mehmed went on to become the second-longest-reigning sultan in Ottoman history after Suleiman the Magnificent.^[1] While the initial and final years of his reign were characterized by military defeat and political instability, during his middle years he oversaw the revival of the empire's fortunes associated with the Köprülü era. Mehmed IV was known by contemporaries as a particularly pious ruler, and was referred to as gazi, or "holy warrior" for his role in the many conquests carried out during his long reign.

Under Mehmed IV's reign, the empire reached the height of its territorial expansion in Europe. From a young age he developed a keen interest in hunting, for which he is known as avcı (translated as "the Hunter").^[1] In 1687, Mehmed was overthrown by soldiers disenchanted by the course of the ongoing War of the Holy League. He subsequently retired to Edirne, where he resided and died of natural causes in 1693.^[1]