| Halife |
: |
Caliph, appointed successor. |
| Hanafite School |
: |
on of the four legal schools
of Sunni Islam. |
| Haraç |
: |
a poll-tax paid by non-Muslims. |
| Harem |
: |
women's apartments in a Muslim
household.
|
| Harem Ağası |
: |
the chief black eunuch of the
Palace |
| Has |
: |
a domain of the sultan, prince
of the blood, yielding an annual revenue of more than one Hundred
thousand akçes |
| Haseki |
: |
a women in the palace, receving
the Sultan's special favours |
| Has Oda |
: |
the Sultan's Privy Chamber |
| Has Odalik |
: |
'imperial concubine' |
| Hazine |
: |
the Treasury |
| Hutbe |
: |
the sermon following the Friday
prayerin which the sultan's name was mentioned |
| Icma |
: |
the consensus of opinion as
the basis for the formulation of a legal practice |
| Icoğlanı |
: |
a devsirme boy |
| Imaret |
: |
a complex of public buldings
supported by a vakif. |
| Ispence |
: |
the name of the cift resmi
as paid by Christians |
| Janissaries |
: |
the Sultan's standing infantry
corps, recruited from the Devshirme and paid from the treasury. |
