Illustration 1. Engraving of Aḥmed III, artist unknown, cited from Allain Mallet, Beschreibung des gantzen Welt-Kreisses , Frankfurt 1719, 312. Ahmed III (Aḥmed III, 22 Ramazan (Ramaḍān) 1084-14 Safer (Ṣafar) 1149/31 December 1673-24 June 1736; Illustration 1), the twenty-third Ottoman sultan, was one of the sons of Sultan Mehmed IV (Sulṭān Meḥmed IV, r. 1058-99/1648-87) and Emetullah Gülnuş (Emet Allāh Gülnūş, d. 1127/1715). He ascended the throne on 10 Rebiülahır (Rabīʿ II) 1115/22 August 1703, in the wake of a Janissary