Odd though it may sound, Murad IV was neither the first nor last person to crack down on coffee drinking he was just arguably the most brutal and successful in his efforts. So what did Murad IV find so objectionable? Public coffee consumption. By some accounts, Murad IV stalked the streets of Istanbul in disguise, whipping out a 100-pound broadsword to decapitate whomever he found engaged in this illicit activity. The risk of disorder associated with this practice were so dire, he apparently thought, that he declared transgressors should be immediately put to death. In 1633, the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV cracked down on a practice he believed was provoking social decay and disunity in his capital of Istanbul.
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