The grand vizier was sent for by the sultan, dismissed, and bowstrung the next day. |
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In 803 Harun al-Rashid murdered his vizier, Ja'far the Barmecide, and ordered the destruction of this powerful vizierial family. |
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He came to Egypt in 1168 as an assistant to his uncle, who was a general and then became the vizier of the last Fatimid caliph. |
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Prolong the dream by spoiling yourself with a night in the Jamaï Palace, previously the residence of a rich vizier now converted into a hotel. |
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She also points out that the absence of maxims regarding the vizierate, the highest office in the land, make it unlikely that the author was a vizier. |
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Succeeding Fazıl Ahmed Paşa as grand vizier, he led unsuccessful campaigns against Poland and then Russia. |
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They saw that the grand vizier of public works only wanted to waste their gold and tell them fairy tales. |
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Once upon a time, the emperor from Shawinigan appointed a brand new grand vizier of public works. |
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In an interview with the absolutist sultan, he expressed opposition to the grand vizier Mahmud Nedim's antireform policies. |
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The great calligrapher, Muhammad ibn Muqla, a vizier at the court of three Abbasid caliphs, was charged with the task of standardising and refining the myriad cursive scripts. |
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It is the city prefect, vizier, and overseer of the six great lawcourts, Iniotefoker, who commands the stewards of the palace administration who are in the Thinite nome. |
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The text in the lower frieze reads '?this was commissioned by the vizier, the great? |
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On his left Usmu, the two-faced god and vizier of Ea, is leading a prisoner. |
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This portico leads to the main pavilion where the vizier would receive guests and which is noteworthy for its carved wood ceiling, stained-glass windows and large wooden lintels. |
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In the mastaba of Mereruka, a vizier of Teti, first king of the 6th dynasty, there were 21 rooms for his own funerary purposes, with six for his wife and five for his son. |
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The sultan thereupon appointed him grand vizier in place of Mahmud Nedim. |
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The vizier inen wrote that he took the throne like a hawk in the egg. |
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He moved to the kingdom of Granada, where he was received, with great pleasure, by Ibn Ahmar and his vizier, the famous code-writer and politician, Ibn al-Jatib, another of the great figures of the time. |
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In addition he undertook such thorough study of Aristotelian philosophy and of medicine that he became court physician to alTadil, vizier of Saladin, at Cairo. |
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The latter was deported along with his vizier Hadji Ali to Madagascar. |
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Amalric retreated, but the victorious Shirkuh had Shawar executed and was appointed vizier. |
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The vizier traitorously revealed the location of the hiding princess in order to save himself. |
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He managed to obtain from the vizier a firman bearing the Emir's personal seal and ordering all Bokharan officials to assist the party in every way possible. |
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Commanders were distinguished by the number of horsetails carried before them. The sultan had seven, the grand vizier five, and the pashas three, two, or one. |
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Governance fell to the caliph's chief administrator, called the vizier. |
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Some such titles are diwan, mahamantri, pradhan, wasir or vizier. |
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She was now one of a group of oriental beauties who, in the second act of the comic opera, were paraded by the vizier before the new potentate as the treasures of his harem. |
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He had learned that after the Portuguese retreat in 1507, a young king was reigning under the influence of a powerful Persian vizier, Reis Hamed, whom the king greatly feared. |
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At Ormuz, Afonso met the king and asked the vizier to be present. |
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Beginning with the late 16th century, sultans withdrew from politics and the Grand Vizier became the de facto head of state. |
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The Grand Vizier had considerable independence from the sultan with almost unlimited powers of appointment, dismissal and supervision. |
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In Baghdad, papermaking was under the supervision of the Grand Vizier Ja'far ibn Yahya. |
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Later still, beginning in 1320, a Grand Vizier was appointed to assume certain of the sultan's responsibilities. |
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Miss Griffin screamed after me, the faithless Vizier ran after me, and the boy at the turnpike dodged me into a corner, like a sheep, and cut me off. |
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