VIZIER  , more correctly VIZIR (Arabic See also:

• WAZIR, or VIZIER (Arabic wazir)

Wazir), literally " See also:

• BURDEN, or BURTHEN

burden-See also:

• BEARER

bearer " or " helper," originally the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister or representative of the Abbasid caliphs . The See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of vizier, which spread from the See also:

• ARABS

Arabs to the Persians, See also:

• TURKS

Turks, See also:

• MONGOLS

Mongols, and other See also:

• ORIENTAL

Oriental peoples, arose under the first Abbasid caliphs (see See also:

• MAHOMMEDAN

MAHOMMEDAN INSTITUTIONS, and See also:

• CALIPHATE

CALIPHATE, C § I) and took shape during its See also:

• TENURE (Fr. tenure, from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenure by the See also:

• BARMECIDES

Barmecides (q.v.) . The vizier stood between See also:

• SOVEREIGN

sovereign and subjects, representing the former in all matters touching the latter . This withdrawal of the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state from See also:

• DIRECT

direct contact with his See also:

• PEOPLE

people was unknown to the Omayyads, and was certainly an See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian usage; it has even been plausibly conjectured that the name is but the Arabic See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of a Persian See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title . In See also:

• MODERN

modern usage the See also:

• TERM

term is used in the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

East generally for any important See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official under the sovereign .