text:  The immediate appointment therefore of Fazil-Ahmed the eldest son of the deceased minister to the vizirat was so complete a departure from all established usages as at once demonstrated to the expectant courtiers that the influence of the crafty old vizir had survived him and that "the star of the house of Kiuprili" (in the words of a Turkish writer) "had only set in the west to rise again with fresh splendour in the east