Usul el-hikem fi nizam el-alem ve intizam Beni Adem - أصول الحكم في نظام العالم و انتظام بنى آدم

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  • Reference
    • GB 59 Or 12717
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1314
  • Language of Material
    • Turkish
  • Physical Description
    • 1 text 57 ff Material : Paper. Foliation : European, 57 ff. Dimensions : 244 mm x 148 mm. Script : Nesih.

Scope and Content

This volume contains a treatise on the true principles of good governance, written originally in Arabic for Mehmet III by Kafi Hasan Efendi el-Ahkisari el-Bosnevi and translated into Ottoman Turkish in 1005 AH (1597 CE) by the author. The text contains a single unvan. The date of transcription of this manuscript is given as 1314 AH (1896-97 CE).

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Acquisition Information

Purchased by the British Museum from Dr. Oskar Rescher in April 1962.

Related Material

Another copy of this text can be found at Or 13507. For more information on the author, see GAL II, p. 443; GAL III, p. 659; TYK I, pp. 622-23; and TYK II, p. 356. For the works of the same name by different authors, see OM III, pp. 21, 46.