Editing Suleiman the Magnificent (section)

==Alternative names and titles==
Suleiman the Magnificent ({{lang|ota-Arab|محتشم سلیمان}} {{lang|ota-Latn|Muḥteşem Süleymân}}), as he was known in the [[Western world|West]], was also called Suleiman the First ({{lang|ota-Arab|سلطان سلیمان اول}} {{lang|ota-Latn|Sulṭān Süleymān-ı Evvel}}), and Suleiman the Lawgiver ({{lang|ota-Arab|قانونی سلطان سلیمان}} {{lang|ota-Latn|Ḳânûnî Sulṭân Süleymân}}) for his reform of the Ottoman legal system.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Suleyman the Magnificent |encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of Islam |date=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref>

It is unclear when exactly the term {{lang|ota-Latn|Kanunî}} (the Lawgiver) first came to be used as an epithet for Suleiman. It is entirely absent from sixteenth and seventeenth-century Ottoman sources and may date from the early 18th century.<ref>{{cite book |first=Cemal |last= Kafadar |chapter= The Myth of the Golden Age: Ottoman Historical Consciousness in the Post-Süleymânic Era |page=41 |editor1-last=İnalcık |editor1-first=Halil |editor2=Cemal Kafadar |title=Süleyman the Second [i.e. the First] and His Time |place=Istanbul |publisher=The Isis Press |date=1993 |isbn=975-428-052-5}}</ref>

There is a tradition of Western origin, according to which Suleiman the Magnificent was "Suleiman II", but that tradition has been based on an erroneous assumption that [[Süleyman Çelebi]] was to be recognised as a legitimate sultan.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia of Islam |last=Veinstein |first=G. |volume=2 |title=Süleymān |editor=P. Bearman |editor2=Th. Bianquis |editor3=C.E. Bosworth |editor4=E. van Donzel |editor5=W.P. Heinrichs }}</ref>