Ottoman Sultans
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An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
A people invoked as having been mocked by contemporaries for lacking witches and demoniacs, taken paradoxically as evidence against their religion.
The Turks were reproached with having amongst them neither sorcerers, witches, nor demoniacs;
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The ruling dynasty of the Ottoman Empire, whose seniority-based succession and fratricide practices are discussed at length.
The declaration that fratricide is a rule of the Ottoman State is attributed to Mahommed II.
More revolting, because more systematic, were the massacres of their near collateral relatives by the Ottoman Sultans;
One reigning Mahommedan house, that of the Ottoman Sultans, has continued to our day a system of royal succession of the highest antiquity—that under which the eldest male relative is preferred in the succession to the son;