The feudal system and its role in supplying the Ottoman army with the cavalry forces (Sibah and its auxiliary forces) from the early fourteenth century until the seventeenth century

Abstract

<> The Ottoman Empire was famous for using the fighting forces that were gathering at the time of the war, and then acted after its completion to return to its normal work. That was during the reign of Ertugrul bin Suleiman, the leader of the Qayi tribe, that is, in the second half of the thirteenth century, and his son Osman, founder of the Ottoman Empire (1288-1326), inherited it.), this system and was able to refine this idea and make it a method for spreading his state throughout Anatolia, and it developed further during the reign of his son Orkhan (1326-1360), who succeeded in transforming this idea from mere fighting forces to becoming a basic system of state development and expansion systems, and this idea flourished greatly during the reign of in Sultan Murad I (1361-1389), especially after implementing the policy of territorial expansion in Anatolia and the Balkans, and the open lands increased, which contributed to the development of the feudal system of the Ottomans, and it became an essential resource in building the most important components of the Ottoman Empire: the army and the economy.