CHAPTER VII✦

THE MOSLEM INSTITUTION OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

GENERAL DESCRIPTION 199

FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE MOSLEM INSTITUTION 200

THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM 203

CLERGY, SEIDS, AND DERVISHES 206

JURISTS AND THE MUFTI 207

THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM 215

THE MOSLEM INSTITUTION AS A WHOLE 224

CHAPTER VIII✦

COMPARISON OF THE TWO GREAT INSTITUTIONS

LIKENESSES 227

DIFFERENCES 230

INTERACTIONS 232

THE RELATIVE POWER OF THE INSTITUTIONS 233

APPENDICES

I. THE SECOND BOOK OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE TURKS

Written in 1534, supposedly by BENEDETTO RAMBERTI.

Translated from the Italian 239

II. PAMPHLET OF JUNIS BEY AND ALVISE GRITTI

Printed in 1537. Presented in the original Italian 262

III. INCOMPLETE TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE KANUN-NAMEH, OR COLLECTION OF EDICTS, OF SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT AS ARRANGED BY THE MUFTI EBU SU’UD

Translated from the Turkish 276

IV. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE MOGUL EMPIRE IN INDIA

General Comparison of Ottoman and Indian Conditions 278

The Personnel of the Mogul Government 279

Relation of Government to Religious Propagation 283

The Army 285

The Court 287

The Government Proper 292

The Moslems and the Moslem Church 299

Books consulted in the Preparation of Appendix IV 303

V. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

i. Origins of Ottoman Governmental Ideas 305

ii. The Ottoman Government in the Sixteenth Century 307

iii. Alphabetical List of Works Cited 322

GLOSSARY OF TURKISH WORDS 331

INDEX 339

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE