Order of Mubarak the Great Order of Mubarak the Great The Order of Mubarak the Great ("Wisam Mubarak al-Kabir") is a knighthood order of Kuwait. The Order was founded on 16 July 1974 by the national government to celebrate the memory of Mubarak Al-Sabah called "the Great", Sheikh of Kuwait from 1896 to 1915, who succeeded in 1897 in obtaining an independence recognition from the Ottoman Empire in favour of Kuwait. The Order is awarded to Heads of State and foreign Sovereigns and to members of foreign royal families in sign of friendship. The "collar" of the Order is composed of a golden medallion with
Rise of the Ottoman Empire and vassals. When the Ottoman polity first emerged at the end of the thirteenth century under the leadership of Osman I, it had a tribal organization without a complex administrative apparatus. As Ottoman territory expanded its rulers were faced with the challenge of administering an ever-larger population. Early on the Ottomans adopted the Seljuks of Rum as models, and by 1324 were able to produce Persian-language bureaucratic documents in the Seljuk style. The early Ottoman state's expansion was fueled by the military activity of frontier warriors (), of whom the Ottoman ruler was initially merely "primus inter pares". Much of