Mustafa II

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Mustafa II (Arabic: مصطفى الثاني) (February 6, 1664 – December 28, 1703) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1695 to 1703.

He was a son of sultan Mehmed IV (1648–87) and abdicated in favor of his brother Ahmed III (1703–30) in 1703.

At the end of his reign, Mustafa II sought to restore power to the Sultanate, which had been an increasingly symbolic position since the middle of the 1600s, when Mehmed IV had signed over his executive powers to the Grand Vizier. Mustafa II's strategy was to create an alternative base of power for himself by making the position of timars, the Ottoman cavalrymen, hereditary and thus loyal to him. The timars, however, were at this point increasingly an obsolete part of the Ottoman military machine.

The strategem (called the "Edirne event" by historians) failed, and Mustafa II was deposed in the same year, 1703.

Sultans of the Ottoman Empire

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Rise (1299 – 1453)
Osman I Orhan I Murad I Bayezid I Mehmed I Murad II Mehmed II
Growth (1453 – 1683)
Bayezid II Selim I Suleiman I Selim II Murad III Mehmed III Ahmed I
Mustafa I Osman II Murad IV
Stagnation (1683 – 1827)
Ibrahim I Mehmed IV Suleiman II Ahmed II Mustafa II Ahmed III Mahmud I
Osman III Mustafa III Abdul Hamid I Selim III Mustafa IV Mahmud II
Decline (1828 – 1908)
Abd-ul-Mejid I Abd-ul-Aziz Murad V Abdulhamid II Mehmed V
Dissolution (1908 – 1923)
Mehmed VI

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