Sultan

A sultan (Arabic: سلطان) is an Islamic title, with several historical meanings.

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The title carries moral weight and religious authority, as the ruler's role was defined in the Qur'an. The sultan however was not a religious teacher himself. In the Byzantine Empire and the traditional spheres of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, a comparable unity of church and state in the person of the ruler is termed Caesaropapism. The last Western ruler with comparable authority was Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia, though formally (if not in practice) the British monarch represents a similar union of church and state, being both the head of state and the Supreme Governor of the Church of England; in practice, the Queen is merely the titular leader of church and state.

Qur'an: The Qur'an ( al-qur'ān literally "the recitation"; also called Al Qur'ān Al Karīm or "The Noble Qur'an"; or transliterated Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. It is a tenet of Islam that the Qur'an is the literal word of God in Arabic and the culminati...

Byzantine Empire: The Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centred at its capital in Constantinople. In certain specific contexts, usually referring to the time before the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it is also often referred to as ...

Caesaropapism: Caesaropapism is the phenomenon of combining the power of secular government with the spiritual authority of the Christian Church; most especially, the inter-penetration of the theological authority of the Christian Church with the legal/juridical authority of the government; in its extreme form, it...

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Sultan Mahmud II	Le Sultan au Jardin	Sultan Khan, Krishna Das: A Drop of the Ocean CD	Sultan Khan, Krishna Das: A Drop of the Ocean CD
The Sultan's Palace Constantinople	Hyder Ali Sultan of Mysore c.1761	Babe Ruth Sultan of Swat 1920's	Portrait of Sultan Selim Ii 'The Destroyer'
The Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent (1494-1566) with Two Dignitaries	Equestrian Portrait of Sultan Osman II (1603-22) 1618	Portrait of Sultan Muhammad Mirza circa 1835	View of the Sultan Ahmet Camii Built 1609-16