The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman the Magnificent

The Government of the Ottoman Empire in the Time of Suleiman the Magnificent is by Albert Howe Lybyer. A passage says Suleiman issued to Ibrahim a commission as Seraskier, or general of the army, which placed the Ruling Institution, the Moslem Institution, the Ottoman nation and all the subject nations under his command. On the return march Ibrahim added the title of Sultan to that of Seraskier in issuing his daily orders, but he had gone too far, the empire could have but one head, and Ibrahim suffered the bow-string.

The text says Suleiman appointed no more Seraskiers with such exalted powers but himself led the army when it was assembled as a whole, and calls the campaign of Szigeth the thirteenth which he directed in person. A passage on the provinces says the chief judge of the province, subject however to appeals to the governor, was the Nizam, who heard the serious criminal cases. The text says a slave was often beloved above a son, and that the sultan’s slaves were sometimes called his children.