| Abdal |
: |
a name sometimes given to itinerant
dervishes. |
| Acemi |
: |
a novice |
| Acemi Oğlan |
: |
a novice in the page-school
of the Palace; a conscript later to join theJanissary corps
|
| Adaletname |
: |
A sultanic rescript, redressing
the malpractices of a provincial authority |
| Ağa |
: |
master ; head servant of a
household. |
| Ahi |
: |
Leader of a semi-religious
fraternity of late Seljuk and early Ottoman times |
| Akçe |
: |
A silver coin, the chief unit
of account in the Ottoman Empire |
| Akritai |
: |
the Byzantine frontier troops |
| Avariz |
: |
extra-ordinary taxes levied
on the reaya in times of emergency. |
| Baba |
: |
The head of Bektashi Lodge |
| Bailo |
: |
a Venetian ambassador to Constantinople |
| Baş Kadın |
: |
the first women of the Palace
harem. |
| Bedestan |
: |
a covered market for the sale
of valuable goods |
| Bektashi Order |
: |
a dervish order founded by
Hacci Bektash Veli |
| Bey |
: |
prince, ruler of an independent
principality |
| Beylerbeyi |
: |
governer of beylerbeylik |
| Beylerbeyilik |
: |
a province, the largest administrative
unit in the Ottoman Empire |
| Beylik |
: |
any district or principality
governed by a bey
|
| Biat |
: |
the oath of allegiance to a
new sultan, sworn by a group representing the Islamic Community |
| Birun |
: |
the outer section of the Sultan's palace.
|
| Cariye |
: |
'slave girl', the lowest degree
in the hierarchy of the palace Harem |
| Chashnigir Bashi |
: |
the chief of sultan's taster |
| Chavus |
: |
an offcial of the Palace, often
sent to the provinces to convey and execute orders |
| Cebelu |
: |
an armed retainer, brought
to war by a timar-holding sipahi
|
| Celali |
: |
a rebel aganist the goverment
in sixteenth century Anatolia |
| Çift |
: |
a unit of agricultural, varying
in size from 60 to150 donums |
| Çift bozan akçesi |
: |
'farm-breaker's tax' |
| Çift Resmi |
: |
farm tax |
| Çıkma |
: |
the graduation of the içoglans
to military or further Palace service |
| Cizye |
: |
the pool-tax paid be non-muslims |
| Danishmend |
: |
a specialist student in a higher
medrese. |
| Darulharb |
: |
'the adobe of war', non-islamic
lands |
| Darulİslam |
: |
'the adobe of islam' , islamic
lands |
| Defterdar |
: |
a head of treasury |
| Devsirme |
: |
the levy of Christian children
to be trained for posts in the Palace, theadministration, or
the Kapikulu corps |
| Divan-i Humayun |
: |
'imperial council', the grand
vizier's council and the cental organ of the Ottoman Goverment |
| Emlak |
: |
property, real estate |
| Enderun |
: |
the inner section of the Sultan's
Palace |
| Esnaf |
: |
small traders |
| Eyalet |
: |
a province |
| Fen |
: |
a practical art or science |
| Ferman |
: |
an edict of the Sultan |
| Fetwa |
: |
a written answer to a legal
question |
| Gaza |
: |
Holy War on behalf of Islam
|
| Gazi |
: |
a warrior fighting on behalf
of Islam |
|
Grand Vizier( Vezir-i Azam)
|
: |
the chief vizier
|
| Halife |
: |
Caliph, appointed successor. |
| Hanafite School |
: |
on of the four legal schools
of Sunni Islam. |
| Haraç |
: |
a poll-tax paid by non-Muslims. |
| Harem |
: |
women's apartments in a Muslim
household.
|
| Harem Ağası |
: |
the chief black eunuch of the
Palace |
| Has |
: |
a domain of the sultan, prince
of the blood, yielding an annual revenue of more than one Hundred
thousand akçes |
| Haseki |
: |
a women in the palace, receving
the Sultan's special favours |
| Has Oda |
: |
the Sultan's Privy Chamber |
| Has Odalik |
: |
'imperial concubine' |
| Hazine |
: |
the Treasury |
| Hutbe |
: |
the sermon following the Friday
prayerin which the sultan's name was mentioned |
| Icma |
: |
the consensus of opinion as
the basis for the formulation of a legal practice |
| Icoğlanı |
: |
a devsirme boy |
| Imaret |
: |
a complex of public buldings
supported by a vakif. |
| Ispence |
: |
the name of the cift resmi
as paid by Christians |
| Janissaries |
: |
the Sultan's standing infantry
corps, recruited from the Devshirme and paid from the treasury. |
| Kadı |
: |
a judge administering both
seriat and kanun |
| Kadıasker |
: |
a highest judicial authority
of the empire after the seyhulislam |
| Kafes |
: |
an apartment in the Palace
in which a royal prince was secluded |
| Kahya Bey |
: |
the grand vizier's agent in
military and political matters |
| Kalfa |
: |
a senior clerk in the bureaucracy |
| Kanun |
: |
a secular law or laws issued
by the Sultan.
|
| Kanun-i Osmani |
: |
the legal code of the Ottoman
sultans |
| Kanunname |
: |
a code of laws; a collection
of sultanic laws |
| Kapi |
: |
'gate' , 'porte' , ottoman
goverment |
| Kapikulu |
: |
'slave of the Porte', a devsirme
or slave employed in military, administative or Palace Service |
| Kapudan-i Derya |
: |
the grand admiral of the Ottoman
fleet |
| Kethuda |
: |
steward, agent, representative
of an organization to the goverment |
| Kiler |
: |
the office of the palace larder |
| Kul |
: |
a slave of the sultan |
| Levend |
: |
a landless and unemployed person |
| Medrese |
: |
a higher institute of Muslim
education.
|
| Miri |
: |
belonging to the goverment |
| Molla |
: |
title given to senior members
of the ulema |
| Müderris |
: |
the chief teacher of a medrese
|
| Müfti |
: |
an offically appointed interpreter
of the seriat |
| Mülk |
: |
freehold property |
| Mürit |
: |
a novice |
| Müteferrika |
: |
one of an elite group in the
palace formed from the sons of pashas |
| Osmanli |
: |
Ottoman |
| Pronoia |
: |
a military fief in the Byzantine
Empire and its successor states |
| Reaya |
: |
the tax-paying subjects of
the Ottoman Empire |
| Sanjak |
: |
the chief administrative unit
of the Ottoman Empire, governed by a Sanjak Beyi
|
| Sarica |
: |
a provincial militia equiped
with fire arms |
| Silahdar |
: |
a custodian of the sultan's
weapons |
| Sipahi |
: |
a cavalryman holding a timar
in the provinces in return for military service
|
| Şeriat |
: |
the secred law of Islam |
| Şeyh |
: |
a popular religious leader |
| Şeyhulislam |
: |
the head of the hierarchy of
ulema |
| Tarikat |
: |
mystic religious order |
| Tekke |
: |
a lodge of a dervish order |
| Timar |
: |
a fief with an annual valueof
less than twenty thousand akçes, whose revenues were held in
return for military sevice |
| Tuğra |
: |
the sultan's offical monogram,
attached to state documents to confirm their legality |
| Tuccar |
: |
merchants |
| Ulema |
: |
the doctors of Muslim canon
law. |
| Usta |
: |
a master in a craft guild or
the bureaucracy. |
| Vakfiye |
: |
the deed of endowment of a
vakif |
| Vakif |
: |
a grant of land or other source
of revenue given in mortmain for pious purposes |
| Valide Sultan |
: |
the mother of the reigning
Sultan |
| Vezir |
: |
a minister of the Sultan and
member of the imperial court |
| Voynik |
: |
a slav warrior in Ottoman service
|
| Yasa |
: |
a code of laws in ancient Turkish
tradition |
| Yürük |
: |
a Turkish nomad in Anatolia |
| Zaviye |
: |
a dervish hospice |
| Zeamet |
: |
a military fief, with an annual
value of twenty to one hunderd thousand akçes. |
