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Bowen, "A'yan," El". ><:l a n d were occasionally given t h e o p t io n to send t roops to the a rmy or pay an amount deemed equivalent by the Po rt e . 122 The a'yiin, however, were fast l o s ing any representative character they might once have had. 12:1 Their adm inistration a nd their counsel to the wali were in their own i n t e r e st s , not in that of the c i ty . They were no longer i ts protectors, so the people sought other means by wh i ch to make their voice heard and t he i r persons and p rop e rty safegtiarded .
Gibb and B owen, Isla m ic Socie ty, I, pt. 1, 340 and 342 : Paka l m , Tarih , Deyimleri, I, 1 62. •2 Cf Gibb and Bowen, Islamic Society, I, pt. 1, 342 ; Pakalm, Tarih Deyimleri, . I I, 1 4. •• 'Awrah, Sulaymiin, 161-162. Sulayman had four baram ar1h,1sis. •• Called by 'Awrah, mftji bashi : Su laym a n , 1 62. •• Ibid. •• Cf. the comment in this sense referring to the household of the gr an d vizir in Gibb and B o w en , Islamic Society, I, pt. 1 , 363 . 87 Jawdat, Ta'rlkh, XI, 37. 89 In addition there was a sa'is ikinji, or deputy chief groom, an 'alamdiir and bayriiqdiir, b o t h of whom had duties re l ating to the banners and { ughs , a qawwas bashi, chief porter who commanded sev eral rifle bearers,90 and sev eral officers whose duties pe rtai ne d to the wali's travels : the sirwiin bashi, in charge of travel arrangements, the mash'alji bashi, who procured men to carry torches i n front of the wali on his n igh t j ourneys, the 'ald�iim.
1 8 the Grounds certainly existrd for such r ep r ess ive measures as we re taken hy Jalal-al-Din Pasha aga i n st the Janissaries, but t h e r e was no s p eci fi c safeguard that the power of su m m ar y execution would not he abused . Occasionally, however, when a wali stepped beyond t h e limits of repres sion deemed suitable by the P o r t e to the circu m s t a n c e s , he would be punished. iammad Pasha, whose cruelties and avarice struck all classes, 19 fi n a l l y rose against his successor, Chataljahli 'Ali Pasha, an d ignominiously ej ected him from the ci ty after his conduct proved to be even more detrimental to the p o p u lace than that of his p redecessor.