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THE PHENOMENON OF FRATRICIDE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Zainab Hashim Jaryan, Alaulddin Abdulhussein

Volume: 9 Issue: 3 2019

Abstract:

The history of the Ottoman Empire during the reign for more than five centuries (1299-1922) faced many problems that had a clear impact on its political history. At the beginning of its history, it had to stabilize its internal influence from the dangers of the neighboring emirate or external dangers. but the empire was in the culmination of serious internal problems represented by a greedy competition among brothers or children to take over the throne, which had a clear impact through the history of the empire for the long term, which weakened the power of the Sultans during their reign inside the country, that affect or cause on their main goal which is to expand beyond the borders of the state. Many sons and brothers of the sultans were killed, exiled or excluded in the palaces of odalisques palaces to ensure the Sultan power, but this was worsened at the beginning of the reign of Sultan Muhammad Al-Fatih when he initiated the law of Fratricide, therefore the sultans made settlement with the neighboring emirates and the foreign countries in order to reach their goal by overthrow each other, the research tries to meet the subjects as far as possible.

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