It Would Be Most Accurate to Say That Under the Ottoman

It would be most accurate to say that under the Ottoman Sublime Porte

A) religion and civilian authority shared equal status.
B) the Ottoman army was controlled by the secular bureaucracy.
C) the Shaykh al-Islam, appointed by the sultan, lent his moral authority to the civil bureaucracy.
D) the grand vizier deferred to the Shaykh al-Islam.
E) converts to Islam could not serve as officials in the civil government.