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and hazards. 1698 ‘Āli argues that two accomplishments of Selim were of special value for<br />

the Muslim society (ümmet-i Muhammed):<br />

Evvelā: Vālid-i büzürgvārı Sultan Bāyezid Han’ın hilkat-i şeriflerindeki sebāt ve<br />

sükūn-ı ‘anāsırın cüz’-i gālibini hāke makrūn itmekle hareketden kalduğı ve gün<br />

günden Şah Đsmail-i Erdebilī Ehl-i Sünnet ve Cemā’at memālikine müstevli olub<br />

kılıç çalduğı, dahī tursa rūy-ı zeminin teshīrine cüll-i himmet kılduğı ve Sultan<br />

Selim Han gibi sāhib-kırān-ı ‘asr elinden tabanca yemesi memālik-i etrāf<br />

padişahlarının hānumanlarına sular koyduğı hususın def’idir.<br />

Đkinci: Ol makūle sahib-i hurūc ki, da’vā-yı şeref-i siyādet ide ve ırk ve nesebi<br />

māderi tarafından Emir Hasan-ı Tavīl ve āna ferzend ü halef-i cemīl Sultan<br />

Ya’kub-ı Celīl hānedānına nisbet hem şahlık ve hem mürşid-i gümrāhlık<br />

semtinden hezār hezār evbaşa hüsn virüb idlāl ve baş baş müfsidleri sāye-i<br />

rāyetinde ‘ibādı pā-māl idinüb serkeşlik üzre iken bī-havf u tereddüd üstüne<br />

varub zarar ve şurūrına ahāli-i Đslamdan men’-i pür-def’idir ki, ol makūle hasm-ı<br />

kavīnin def’i kırk yıl kāmil tedārik isterdi ve ol zümre mā-beyninde kibār u sığār<br />

ve kāffe-i a’yān-ı büzürgvār – ‘iyāzen billāh – ne cefālar çekdi. Kanı<br />

dökülmeyüb sağ kurtulanlar dahī bīmār u zerāne kanlar yutaydı ve askerine gāh<br />

sa’ādetle ve gāh kerāmetle ve gāh velāyetle i’tikād viren Hāricī’nin hānedān-ı<br />

devleti ateşgede-i gebrān gibi gitdikçe kuvvet ve işti’āl bulub söyündürmesi niçe<br />

rūzgār harb u kıtāl ve iştiğāl icāb iderdi. 1699<br />

Celalzāde’s view was not different. In his Selim-nāme Celalzāde says that<br />

“during the reign of Bayezid II, the viziers were not acquainted with necessary vision<br />

and knowledge in order to govern the country successfully. Moreover, they were<br />

defective in terms of religious purity and because of this, the conditions of the country<br />

worsened day by day. If Sultan Selim did not ascend to the throne, the country of Rūm<br />

(mülk-i Rūm) would have been (inevitably) lost. (Merhūm Sultan Selim Han padişah<br />

olmasa mülk-i Rum elden gitmiş idi.)” 1700<br />

In the years until Selim executed Ahmed in 1513 and finished the civil war,<br />

Anatolian population and the provincial administrators were in a complete turmoil and<br />

confusion. On one side, for the state officials and local authorities it was hard to openly<br />

1698 ALI, p. 1071.<br />

1699 ALI, pp. 1053-4.<br />

1700 CLZ, p. 253.<br />

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