'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎12] (561/1024)

The Mouftis and the Cadis pafs therefore indifferently under the NamToFfer'
well skill’d in the Law, as if we fhould reduce_ our Divines and our Civil Law 3
yers into the lame Clals, and in civil and criminal Caules the Moufti is of te i
rnnfiilrprl.
The Moufti is the honourary Chief of the Law all over the Empire, and account
ed to be the Interpreter of the Alchoran. I fpeak of the Grand Moufti oiCon^antml
who is the moll efreetrfd, and the principal of all. For there are feveral others of
them in Turkey, over whom he has no more jurifdi&ion, than he has over the 7^/
or Priehs; every one of them fiibmitting themfelves only to the Magiftrate and
there being no Eccleliaftical Superiority amongft them. That hinders not but that
the Grand Moufti is honoured by all the refh, and in great veneration among theTW
The Grand Seignor never bellows that Dignity, but upon a Perfon of great abilities ’
and great integrity; he often confults him in the Affairs of greatefl importance; he
always follows his DkecHons, and he is the only Perfon in the World, at whole
approach he rifes up to receive him.
The Cadikfcmrs follow the Moufti) and are Judges-Advocates of the Militia the
Souldiers having this Priviledge, That they are judg’d only by them ; whence they
alfo call them. Judges ef the Armies. There are but two of them all over the Em
pire, the Cadilefquer of Romania) and the Cadilefquer of NatcHa, who are in higheft
effeem next to the Moufti) and have their Seats in the Divan, immediately next to
the Grand Vizir.
The Mollah) or Moula- CadiS) are the Judges of great Cities, who recive their Com-
miflions from the CadilefquerS) to whom there may be an Appeal made from their
Sentence, in Civil Concerns only * for as to the Criminal part, the Caufc is foon de
cided, and the lead: Judge condemns to death without any Appeal.
The Cadis are tinder the Mollah) and ought to be well vers'd in the Laws andCu-
floms of the Countrey. They have alfo under them the Naips, who adminilter
Juftice in the Villages, and that is done with much expedition, without the help of
Pro&ors, or Advocates*
The ImanS) or EmaumS) are the priefts of the Turks, and as ’twere the Parfons of
their Mofqueys, where they take care that all things be done in order, and at the times
appointed.
The Hogias are the Doctors of the Law,and as It were the Regents,and Infinites
of Youth.
The Sheify are to them, inftead of Preachers, and they make publick Exhor
tations.
The Muezims are they,who cry upon the Towers of the Mofqueyyo call the People
together at the hour of Prayer 5 the Turks, not ufing any Bells, nor the Cbriftm 3
in the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. .
The Vervis are Religious Men, among the Turks, who live poorly, and indeed the
very word fignifies/w. They are for the mod part ridiculoufly cloath’d, and all, ge
nerally, great Hypocrites.