[76] Of course, since July, 1908, the whole idea of the Ottoman state has changed, although the military titles remain; indeed since the reforms of 1836 the above description has only in part held true. These general statements may be understood to refer to Turkey from 1453 to 1836.
[77] The ulema were the doctors of sacred law and jurisprudence.
[78] This account taken from Solakzadeh, op. cit.
[79] Albrecht, W. Grundriss des Osmanischen Staatsrechts (Berlin, 1905), p. 68.
[80] Guillaume Postel, La République des Turcs, p. 49.
[81] Daru, Histoire de Venise, quoted by Zeller, op. cit., note p. 204.
[82] Charrière, op. cit., vol. i, p. 486.
[83] Pietro Zen said Ibrahim had been a Venetian subject. Albèri, III, also Bragadino, Marini Sanuto, vol. 41, p. 527, wrote: “Questo bassa è molto amico di la Signoria nostra, homo iusto et savio; ha cassà zoie portade dal Cayro oltra il bel presente fece al Signore, come scrisse.”
[84] Marini Sanuto, op. cit. passim.
[85] Albèri, III, i, p. 28.