Why did Fatih hire a magician? (Signs of the Sultans)

Throughout history, in great empires, important events such as war, peace, weddings were initiated by consulting the magi. King Hammurabi of Babylon, King of England VIII. Henry or Genghis Khan... All of them had astrologers with them to consult auspicious and unfortunate times. This practice, which has been going on since ancient times, did not change in the Ottoman Empire. II. The office of astrologer, which began to be seen during the reign of Murad II, It reached its peak in the reign of Bayezid. At that time, the ongoing throne fights with Cem Sultan, uncertainties such as the Safavid danger, II. It caused Bayezid to be very interested in astrology. Thus, the office of chief astrologer became an institutional one. Magistrates' salaries increased. Magi were consulted in important cases such as culus ceremonies, weddings of sultans, circumcisions of princes. III, who was in the cage for a long time. Mustafa was only one of the sultans who were very interested in astrology. Also, III. Events such as the works of Takiyüddin Mehmed and the establishment of the first observatory in Istanbul during the reign of Murad II enabled astronomy to reach its peak in the Ottoman Empire.
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