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kaziasker, (from Arabic qāḍī, “judge,” and ʿaskar, “army”), the second highest officer in the judicial hierarchy of the Ottoman Empire; he ranked immediately after the shaykh al-Islām, the head of the ʿulamāʾ (men of religious learning). The title was created by Sultan Murad I (reigned 1360–89), who appointed Çandarli Kara Halil as the first kaziasker. In that office he accompanied the army in campaigns and dispensed justice in camp. After the conquest of Istanbul (1453), Sultan Mehmed II (reigned 1444–46, 1451–81) duplicated the office on advice of the grand vizier Karamani Mehmed Paşa, who was envious of the powers of ...(100 of 231 words)

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