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Divan<br />

El-harb fi<br />

el-bahr<br />

ex parte<br />

Fetihname<br />

Firman<br />

Ghazi<br />

Grand Vizier<br />

Guerre de<br />

Course<br />

Hostis humani<br />

generis<br />

Janissaries<br />

Jihad<br />

Kaptan<br />

Kapudan Pasha<br />

Khodja<br />

Moriscos<br />

Odjac<br />

Turkish/Arabic term mean<strong>in</strong>g high body of government;<br />

used for the first time <strong>in</strong> English <strong>in</strong> 1586. At Algiers the<br />

Divan was composed of some sixty Turkish notables who<br />

served as members of the Dey’s government.<br />

Warfare at sea.<br />

Lat<strong>in</strong> phrase mean<strong>in</strong>g “from one side”: <strong>in</strong> the <strong>in</strong>terest of<br />

one side only. ex parte, adj.: one-sided.<br />

Letter announc<strong>in</strong>g the conquest of a city.<br />

Sultanic decree.<br />

Muslim holy warrior who fights the <strong>in</strong>fidels on the<br />

frontiers of Muslim land; pl. ghuzat.<br />

Grand m<strong>in</strong>ister of the Sultan hav<strong>in</strong>g great powers;<br />

equivalent to the English term prime m<strong>in</strong>ister.<br />

Form of warfare which consisted of chas<strong>in</strong>g and plunder<strong>in</strong>g<br />

commercial vessels at the high sea. Terms <strong>with</strong> an<br />

equivalent mean<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>clude ‘privateer<strong>in</strong>g’ and ‘corsair<strong>in</strong>g’.<br />

Lat<strong>in</strong> expression mean<strong>in</strong>g ‘enemies of humanity’ or<br />

‘enemies of all mank<strong>in</strong>d.’<br />

Elite corps of the army of the <strong>Ottoman</strong> Empire from the<br />

late 14 th to 1826; Turkish soldiery of Algiers.<br />

Form of warfare aga<strong>in</strong>st the enemies of Islam; the one who<br />

adopts this form of fight<strong>in</strong>g is a mujahid; pl. mujahid<strong>in</strong><br />

Admiral or supreme commander of the <strong>Algeria</strong>n fleet.<br />

Grand or Supreme Admiral of the whole <strong>Ottoman</strong> fleets.<br />

Secretary.<br />

The Muslims of Spa<strong>in</strong> who were forced <strong>in</strong>to Christianity<br />

by royal edict, church, and Inquisition courts. Outwardly<br />

baptized, the Moriscos cont<strong>in</strong>ued to practice Islam secretly.<br />

A small but powerful m<strong>in</strong>ority or faction composed from<br />

the janissaries.<br />

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