THE PRESENT SULTAN ABD-UL-MEDSCHID THE FIRST
... The Sultan has already gone through the ceremony of being girded with the Scimitar of the Prophet in the Mosque of Eyoub, situate on the right bank of the Golden Horn. The ceremony was performed according to custom by the Sheik of ?? Dervishes resident at Koniah, in Asia Minor, who was summoned to the capital immediately on the death of Sultan Mahmoud. Abd-ul Medschid was brought up in the ...