The Sword of Osman (Ottoman Turkish: تقلیدِ سیف; Turkish: Osman’ın Kılıcı) was an important sword of state used during …

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The Sword of Osman (Ottoman Turkish: تقلیدِ سیف; Turkish: Osman’ın Kılıcı) was an important sword of state used during the enthronement ceremony (Turkish: Kılıç alayı) of the sultans of the Ottoman Empire.This particular type of enthronement ceremony was the Ottoman variant of the Bay’ah. The sword was named after Osman I, founder of the Ottoman dynasty. 💞

The girding 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 Sheikh Edebali. The girding was held at the tomb complex at Eyüp, on the Golden Horn waterway in the capital Constantinople. Even though the journey from Topkapı Palace (where the sultan resided) to the Golden Horn was short, the sultan would board a boat amid much pomp to go there. The Eyüp tomb complex was built by Mehmed II in honour of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, a companion of beloved Prophet Muhammad who had died during the first Muslim Siege of Constantinople 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 Beloved Prophet Muhammad himself.💞

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 Sharif of Konya, a Mevlevi dervish, 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 Bursa and later to Constantinople.💞

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