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VIZIER , more correctly VIZIR (Arabic See also:

WAZIR, or VIZIER (Arabic wazir)

Wazir), literally " See also:

BURDEN, or BURTHEN

burden-See also:

BEARER

bearer " or " helper," originally the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister or representative of the Abbasid caliphs. The See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of vizier, which spread from the See also:

ARABS

Arabs to the Persians, See also:

TURKS

Turks, See also:

MONGOLS

Mongols, and other See also:

ORIENTAL

Oriental peoples, arose under the first Abbasid caliphs (see See also:

MAHOMMEDAN

MAHOMMEDAN INSTITUTIONS, and See also:

CALIPHATE

CALIPHATE, C § I) and took shape during its See also:

TENURE (Fr. tenure, from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenure by the See also:

BARMECIDES

Barmecides (q.v.). The vizier stood between See also:

SOVEREIGN

sovereign and subjects, representing the former in all matters touching the latter. This withdrawal of the See also:

head of the See also:

state from See also:

DIRECT

direct contact with his See also:

PEOPLE

people was unknown to the Omayyads, and was certainly an See also:

IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of See also:

Persian usage; it has even been plausibly conjectured that the name is but the Arabic See also:

ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of a Persian See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title. In See also:

MODERN

modern usage the See also:

TERM

term is used in the See also:

East generally for any important See also:

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official under the sovereign.

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