It Would Be Most Accurate to Say That Under the Ottoman

question 12

Multiple Choice

It would be most accurate to say that under the Ottoman Sublime Porte

• A) religion and civilian authority shared equal status.
• B) the Ottoman army was controlled by the secular bureaucracy.
• C) the Shaykh al-Islam, appointed by the sultan, lent his moral authority to the civil bureaucracy.
• D) the grand vizier deferred to the Shaykh al-Islam.
• E) converts to Islam could not serve as officials in the civil government.

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