Editing Osman I (section)

===The Sword of Osman===
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The Sword of Osman ({{Langx|tr|Taklid-i Seyf}}) was an important [[sword of state]] used during the coronation ceremony of the [[List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Sultans]]<ref>Frederick William Hasluck, [First published 1929], "XLVI. The Girding of the Sultan", in Margaret Hasluck, ''Christianity and Islam Under the Sultans II'', pp. 604–622. {{ISBN|9781406758870}}</ref> starting with Sultan [[Murad II]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Topbaş|first1=Osman Nuri|url=http://islamicpublishing.org/KAYNAKLAR/Dokumanlar/KITAPLAR/arabic/arapca-abide-sahsiyet-ve-muesseseleriyle-osmanli.pdf|title=al-ʻUthmānīyūn: rijāluhum al-ʻiẓām wa muʼassasātihim al-shāmikhah|publisher=Dar al-arqam|year=2016|isbn=9789944835251|edition=1st|place=Istanbul|page=95|language=ar|translator-last1=Muḥammad|translator-first1=Ḥarb|trans-title=The Ottomans: their great men and their majestic institutions|access-date=13 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417131523/http://islamicpublishing.org/KAYNAKLAR/Dokumanlar/KITAPLAR/arabic/arapca-abide-sahsiyet-ve-muesseseleriyle-osmanli.pdf|archive-date=17 April 2018}}</ref> The practice started when Osman was girt with the sword of Islam by his father-in-law [[Sheik Edebali]].<ref>Frank R. C. Bagley, ''The Last Great Muslim Empires'' (Leid Brill, 1969), p. 2 {{ISBN|9789004021044}}</ref> The girding of the sword of Osman was a vital ceremony which took place within two weeks of a sultan's accession to the throne. It was held at the tomb complex at [[Eyüp]], on the [[Golden Horn]] waterway in the capital [[Constantinople]]. 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.<ref>{{cite news|date=18 September 1876|title=Girding on the Sword of Osman|page=2|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1876/09/18/94655470.pdf|access-date=19 April 2009|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=October 2016}}