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The fact that the emblem by which a sultan was enthroned consisted of a sword was highly symbolic. It showed that the office with which he was invested was first and foremost that of a warrior. The Sword of Osman was girded on to the new sultan by the
179:, whose girding ceremony was held on 4 July 1918, went even further by allowing the ceremony to be filmed. Since he was the last reigning Ottoman sultan, that is the only such ceremony that was ever put on film. The Sword of Osman is held in 142:, who was summoned to Constantinople for that purpose. Such a privilege was reserved to the men of this Sufi order from the time Osman I had established his residence in Sögüt in 1299, before the capital was moved to 82:
of the Sword of Osman was a vital ceremony and took place within two weeks of a sultan's ascension to the throne. The practice started when Osman I was girt with the sword of Islam by his mentor and father-in-law
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in the 7th century. The sword girding thus occurred on what was regarded as sacred grounds and linked the newly-enthroned sultan to his 13th-century ancestors and to Muhammad himself.
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Until the late 19th century, non-Muslims were banned from entering the Eyüp Mosque and witnessing the girding ceremony. The first to depart from that tradition was
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onwards. This particular type of enthronement ceremony was the Ottoman variant of the
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to write an extremely detailed account of it. Mehmed V's brother and successor,
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Sword of state used during the enthronement ceremony of the Ottoman sultans
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Note: some of the existing swords are named after earlier legendary ones.
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Crowning of Mehmed VI as last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire in 1918
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
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Abdullah Kirbaçoglu (cinematographer) (1918-07-04).
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Index

Ottoman Turkish
Turkish
sword of state
Turkish
sultans
Ottoman Empire
Murad II
Bay'ah
Osman I
Ottoman dynasty
girding
Sheikh Edebali
tomb complex
Eyüp
Golden Horn
Constantinople
Topkapı Palace
Mehmed II
Abu Ayyub al-Ansari
Muhammad
Siege of Constantinople
Sharif
Konya
Mevlevi
dervish
Bursa
Mehmed V
Sheikh ul-Islam
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
chief rabbi (Hakham Bashi)

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