Заборона кави за Мурада IV

During Ottoman Sultan Murad IV's reign (1623–1640), authorities closed coffeehouses and prohibited coffee and tobacco, including after a major Istanbul fire in 1633. Chronicles and historical scholarship describe severe punishments, even death, for violating restrictions on coffee, tobacco, and other substances. The edicts changed and were enforced unevenly; they also served to control public gatherings. This was not a stable empire-wide system in which every act of drinking coffee automatically brought a death sentence.