A History of Ottoman Political Thought Up to the Early Nineteenth Century

Samples of Translated Texts 489 above the sword. That happens because the sword aims to destroy, whereas the pen aims to produce ...

490 appendix 2 peasant performs extraordinary service and out of (the sultan’s) abundant grace becomes a sipahi and is endowed w ...

Samples of Translated Texts 491 ... Moreover, the janissaries should wear something that demonstrates their identity when they d ...

492 appendix 2 for zeamet or fiefs. Now, concerning the imperial vakfs, there is nothing to be said: the great sultans donated t ...

Samples of Translated Texts 493 contradictory high orders contrary to the facts, and if they are accountants in the royal treasu ...

494 appendix 2 will ensure that the operation of that workshop and its regular functioning will be secured and guaranteed for mo ...

Samples of Translated Texts 495 previously were bought for one asper could not be found for ten. This recruit- ment of peasants ...

496 appendix 2 janissaries’ numbers increased unnecessarily, that their salaries were also multi- plied, and that expenses surpa ...

Samples of Translated Texts 497 ... Let it not be a secret for the sultan that the entering of strangers into the janissary corp ...

498 appendix 2 of giving satisfactory answer to the questions about their origins, will remain absent at the time of inspection, ...

Samples of Translated Texts 499 And the janissaries should not be married from now on. Now there are some married ones among the ...

500 appendix 2 about it. There is nothing in the arguments [of Ebussuud] supporting anything of irrevocability, absolutely nothi ...

Samples of Translated Texts 501 the taxes on it] for the benefit of the sultan’s slaves, are in fact driving the sultan down the ...

502 appendix 2 My sultan, you should give all posts to beys or judges with this condition, that “I will not dismiss you. Be safe ...

Samples of Translated Texts 503 take measures to readjust public affairs act according to these signs ... because the cure appli ...

504 appendix 2 It is a widespread belief among the common people that bribery is absolutely unlawful; this is a parrot-cry which ...

Samples of Translated Texts 505 and complies to the necessities of the time, that the disposition of the state fol- lows the per ...

506 appendix 2 his gain both with their labor and with their funds, without asking for immediate remuneration, hoping to become ...

Samples of Translated Texts 507 possessors of all the wealth ... The fruiterers and merchants put a double price on provisions a ...

508 appendix 2 Because [the Albanians] have not been given any orderly arrangement, they are a wild and ill-mannered tribe that ...