Could a stratocrat Ottoman Empire be possible?

[Gukpard]

I'm asking this because I don't know if the cultural, religious and political situation of the Ottoman Empire would allow them to have a stratocracy, since the leader of the state is the sultan and he got the legitimacy to rule given from Islam, while the stratocracy is a Greek (and so western) concept that doesn't seems to fit well on the narrative. Anyway:

Could a coup happen in the Ottoman Empire during a period of economical crisis, instability, civil war or during a losing war against a greater foe, with the Janissaries taking total control and reorganizing the ottoman state, replacing regional governors and beys with military leaders and gearing the ottoman state to serve the army?

 

[xsampa]

The Janissaries were too conservativr to stage a coup and they were on their way out because of failure to modernize. Maybe a *communist coup could borrow from the stratocratic elements in the OE.

 

[SeaCambrian]

Arguably, the Ottomans were already a stratocracy due to the role of Beylerbeys, Pashas, Beys, Timariots, and Sanjak-beys in the administration.

Most states in that period of history could be considered stratocracies due to the role of military service in feudal, royal and imperial administrations and the indistinguishability of military and civil authority.

As for as rule by a military caste like the Janissaries, that was not unprecedented in Islamic world. The Mamluks and Ghaznavids can be seen as examples. Of course this isn't directly transmutable to the Ottoman state which had a relatively unique structure.