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even the sultan's power to an extent. Historian Baki Tezcan has argued that the latter faction - with the help of the influential seyhülislam Hocazade Esad Efendi - was able to prevail in this instance. The bloodless succession from Ahmed I to Mustafa I in 1617 "provided a reference for the eventual stabilization of the rule of Ottoman succession, the very regulation of which by an outside force was in effect a constitutional

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