Note 672 — Chapter VII · THE MOSLEM INSTITUTION OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

See Hammer, Geschichte, iii. 278 ff.; and Appendix III below. Heidborn, 215, contributes further details as to the great Mufti’s advance in the cursus honorum of the Moslem Institution. He shows that he began his legal studies at 27 years of age, continued them until his 45th year, was made Kazi of Brusa, then of Constantinople, and in his 50th year (944 A.H.) Mufti. The last statement seems to be erroneous; for Hammer (as above) says that he became Mufti in 952 (1545 A. D.), after eight years’ service as Kaziasker. Probably, then, he was made Kaziasker in 944 and Mufti in 952. After thirty years in that eminent position, he died in 982 (1574).