text:  The grand-vizir Ahmed and other panders to the vices of the sultan were seized and put to death on the place of public execution; while an immense crowd of soldiers citizens and janissaries assembling before the palace of the mufti early on the morning of August 8 1648 received from him a _fetwa_ or decree to the effect that the sultan (designated as "Ibrahim Abdul-Rahman Effendi") had by his habitual immorality and disregard of law forfeited all claim to be considered as a true believer and was therefore incapable of reigning over the Faithful