Did the Ottomans understand the theological nuances of the Reformation?
I know that the Ottomans crossed paths with the early Calvinist movement in Hungarian lands. Did they realize that Calvinism was a significant theological and liturgical movement within the nascent Reformation revolution? Or did they perceive Reformed Christianity as just another small dissenting dhimmi group/potential millet that could be used against the Pope and as a political wedge to crack open Central Europe?
European Christian liturgies reflect ambivalence about Ottoman military and political strength. The collect for the Good Friday liturgy of the 16th century Book of Common Prayer specifically mentions the "Turk", and not Islam in general, within the list of religious groups called to conversion. Did Ottoman scholars read Aquinas, Calvin and Luther, let alone the fathers and saint's lives of the Byzantine Christian tradition? If so, then perhaps the Ottoman intellectual caste imparted some background information on various Christian theological schools to the bureaucrats and generals working within the conquered lands.