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Not by a long shot. The rulers of the Ottoman Empire were the Sultan, in political matters, and the Caliph, in spiritual matters. Shiites (shia) are a sect of Islam vigorously opposed by the Ottoman Empire and were often seen as a fifth column with loyalties to the Ottoman Empire's rival: the Safavid Persian Empire.

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