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  mosque and who makes the call to prayer from the minaret

  minaret: tower from which the imam makes the call to prayer

  oda (odası): room or chamber

  pasha: a title given to generals, vezirs and governors general

  pazar (pazarı): bazaar

  şadırvan: ablution fountain in a mosque courtyard

  sancak: subdivision of a province

  sancakbey: governor of a sancak

  saray (sarayı): Turkish palace

  selamlık: men’s quarters in an Ottoman home or palace

  sipahi: member of the feudal cavalry

  şeyhülislam: head of the Islamic religious hierarchy in the Ottoman Empire

  sokak (sokağı): street

  tabhane: hospice, often for itinerant dervishes

  tekke (tekkesi): dervish lodge

  timarhane: insane asylum

  türbe (türbesi): tomb

  ulema: member of the learned class, educated in Islamic law

  vezir: one of the sultan’s ministers

  yeni: new

  The Ottoman Dynasty

  Osman Gazi (c. 1282-1326)

  Orhan Gazi (1326-62)

  Murat I (1362-89)

  Beyazit I (1389-1402)

  Interregnum

  Mehmet I (1413-21)

  Murat II (1421-44, 1446-51)

  Mehmet II (1444-6, 1451-81)

  Beyazit II (1481-1512)

  Selim I (1512-20)

  Süleyman I, the Magnificent (1520-66)

  Selim II (1566-74)

  Murat III (1574-95)

  Mehmet III (1595-1603)

  Ahmet I (1603-17)

  Mustafa I (1st reign) (1617-18)

  Osman II (1618-22)

  Mustafa I (2nd reign) (1622-3)

  Murat IV (1623-40)

  Ibrahim (1640-8)

  Mehmet IV (1648-87)

  Süleyman II (1687-91)

  Ahmet II (1691-5)

  Mustafa II (1695-1703)

  Ahmet III (1703-30)

  Mahmut I (1730-54)

  Osman III (1754-7)

  Mustafa III (1757-74)

  Abdül Hamit I (1774-89)

  Selim III (1789-1807)

  Mustafa IV (1807-8)

  Mahmut II (1808-39)

  Abdül Mecit I (1839-61)

  Abdül Aziz (1861-76)

  Murat V (1876)

  Abdül Hamit II (1876-1909)

  Mehmet V Reşat (1909-18)

  Mehmet VI Vahidettin (1918-22)

  Abdül Mecit (II) (caliph only) (1922-4)

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