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Mehemet Ali Viceroy of Egypt, by Auguste Couder, 1841. Rostom (Rustam Khan), Safavid viceroy of Kartli, Georgia.. Wāli, Wā'lī or vali (from Arabic: والي Wālī) is an administrative title that was used in the Muslim world (including the Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates and the Ottoman Empire) to designate governors of administrative divisions.
Turkish English Etymology Head Notes vilayet: province, department [8] from Arabic wilāyah: Wali (administrative title) Established: 21 January 1867, replaced the eyalets eyalet: province replaced the beylerbeylik, starting 1590 beylerbeylik: beylerbey: sancak (liva) sanjak, banner, district, arrondissement [8] sanjakbey/mutesarrifs
In the Turkish Islamic lands, saints have been referred to by many terms, including the Arabic walī, the Persian s̲h̲āh and pīr, and Turkish alternatives like baba in Anatolia, ata in Central Asia (both meaning "father"), and eren or ermis̲h̲ (< ermek "to reach, attain") or yati̊r ("one who settles down") in Anatolia. [1]
The administrative district under his authority, the mutasarrifate (mutasarriflık), [clarification needed] was officially called a sanjak (سنجاق) in Turkish or liwa (لواء) in Arabic and Persian. [2] [4] A mutasarrif was subordinate to a wali or governor-general of a province, while being of superior rank to a kaymakam. [2] [5]
The mausoleum of Ahmad Yasawi who was also considered a Sufi saint and poet in Turkistan, current day Kazakhstan.. Sufi saints or wali (Arabic: ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. [1]
A map of the Arab world. This is based on the standard territorial definition of the Arab world which comprises the states and territories of the Arab League.. The Turks in the Arab world (Arabic: الأتراك في الوطن العربي; Turkish: Arap coğrafyasındaki Türkler) refers to ethnic Turkish people who live in the Arab world.
Wali (Islamic legal guardian) Al-Walī (Arabic: الولي) and Al-Wālī (Arabic: الوالي), are two related names of God in Islam; Wāli, an administrative title used by the Arabic and Ottoman Caliphates; Wali, weli, wely or welli, a synonym for a Muslim maqam (shrine), used in Palestine and in older Western scholarly literature
Historically, Ottoman Turkish was the official language and lingua franca throughout the Ottoman territories and the Ottoman Turkish alphabet used the Perso-Arabic script. However, Turkish intellectuals sought to simplify the written language during the rise of Turkish nationalism in the nineteenth century. [300]