 He needed the support of both the public and the nobles “who would enable him to exercise his rule”, and utilized the old and potent Islamic trope of Ghazi King.In order to gain popular, international support for his conquests, Murad II modeled himself after the legendary Ghazi kings of old.The Ottomans already presented themselves as ghazis, painting their origins as rising from the ghazas of Osman, the founder of the dynasty.