janissaryship

plural janissaryships

1. The position of a janissary.

   What led to Dziuba's "janissaryship"?

   1977, Journal of Ukrainian Graduate Studies

   3 more examples

   [...] but as "he loses status who stays in one place", he would have to sell two of his three offices (the scriptorship and the janissaryship totalling 1,400 ducats) in order to acquire his father's abbreviatorship.

   1992, The Medici in Florence, page 257

   Thus, Muṣṭafā b. Ḥasan, one such janissary, asked for a kadi warrant to verify his reʿāyā status on the following grounds: "I had served the sultan for a couple of years claiming janissary-ship. [...]"

   2007, Hülya Canbakal, Society and Politics in an Ottoman Town: ʿAyntāb in the 17th Century, page 87

   Nevertheless, Janissaryship was expressed in a set of physical features [...]

   2018, Ali Yaycioglu, “Guarding Traditions and Laws—Disciplining Bodies and Souls: Tradition, Science, and Religion in the Age of Ottoman Reform”, in Modern Asian Studies, volumes 52, 5, Cambridge University Press, page 1560