SULTAN SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT

(1495 - 1566 )

He was the son of the Sultan Selim Khan and the Sultana Hafsa Hatun. He was born on the 27th of April in 1495 and died on the -th of September in 1566. He reigned over the Empire for forty-sixx years, from 1520 to 1566.
Suleiman the Lawgiver was born in Trebizond at The time when his father was governor there. Solyman the Great was trained very well beginning from his early childhood. He was made Sultan at the time when he was of 26 years age. He was Yen- serious and dignified, and he acted with composure at all times. He was never impatient whilst making a decision of what Ile would do and once he came to a decision on something, he never abondoned it. He charged8I the men whom he would bring to power according to their efficiency.
The reason of his being titled the surname of legislator was not why he made new laws but he applied the current laws strictly. During his sultanate, Henry the Eighth, the British King, sent a mission to Istanbul to scrutinize how the Ottoman justice mechanism worked and he utilized the Turkish laws as an example for his country.
That great Padishah whom the European historians called "Solyman the Magnificent" took part in a great number of battles in person.

In 1522, he conquered rhodesia, accepting the desire of help of the French Emporer, he wrote to German King, and upon this francois, who was taken as a prisoner of war, was set free by the germans.

In 1526. he annihilated Hum/aria with the Mohach War and seized Budapesht.
In 1529, he sieged Vien; in 1532. he waged war on Austria; in 1532. he declared warfare on Austria; in 1532, he realized a mobilization against Austria; in 1533, he made an anagreement with Germany: he took Otranto in 1537, and Estergon, Istolni, and Belgrade in 1543.
Barbarossa Brothers routed all the fleets in the Mediterranean Sea and they subjected the Northern Africa to the Ottoman Empire. The Crimean Suzerains advanced to Moscow.

The Lawgiver sent fleet to the Indian Ocean to aid the Muhammedans, and he gained a lot of places in Sudan and Abyssinia.

In 1548, Tebriz was captured the fourth time. Suleiman the Legislator, who was among the most famous Sultans in the Ottoman History, passed away on a battlefield on the 7th of September, 1566. At that time he was commanding the operation of besiege of the Fortress of Zigetwar, and he was exactly 74 years and four months and ten days old at the time when he expired. He ruled over the Ottomans for forty-six years. He was an eminent statesman and poet. One of his best-known poems was as follows:
Nothing is respected more than the Empire indeed, No fortune in the world is as important as health even a breath,
What they call sultanate is just a flight for this world subject to death,
Nothing but the unity is better than fortune and happiness.
The lands of the Ottoman Empire which were of 6.557.000 km/sqs at the beginning of his emperorship annexed to 14.893.000 km/sqs during his sultanate.
His burial service was performed by the Grand Mufti Eboussououd Effendi, and Nakibu'l—Eshraf Mouhterem Effendi of Tashkent, and he was interred into his mausoleum in the yard of the Solymaniye Mosque. (May Allah have mercy upon his soul!)

Among the noted of the Succession of the Descendants of Nakshibend, Their Exalted Excellencies Sheikh Sunbul Sinan, Ibrahim Gulshenee, Sheikh Hattat Mustafa Dede, the son of the Sheik Hamidoullah, Kara Davoud, Sheikh-zade, who wrote the footnote to the book, Beyzavee, Ala-ud-din, the owner of the Houmayoun-name (Imperial Documents), Ibrahim Halebee, the author of the Multeka (Junction) Mustapha Effendi, the writer of the Akhteree, Nimetoullah Effendi, Hun- Effendi, among the Holy Forties, and Ibn-ee Nedjiym, the writer of the Ishbakh (Saturation) were the great Mussulman personages of the era of the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
He had eight sons whose names were Selim the Second. Bayezid, Abdoullah, Murad, Mehmed, Malunoud. Djikhangir, Mustafa: and he had two daughters called Mikhrimakh Sultana and Raziye Sultana.