[Tercüme-yi siyaset-i şeriye] - [ترجمۀ سیاست شرعیه]

This volume contains an Ottoman Turkish translation by İsmail Müfit Efendi (died 1217 AH/1802-03 CE) of Bursalı Dede Efendi's Arabic treatise on government entitled al-Siyāsat al-sharīᶜiyah (السياسة الشرعية). The latter is mentioned in OM as a scholar of some repute who died in 1147 AH (1734-35 CE), but there is nothing about his composing a treatise by this title, although he did compose several works in Arabic. This copy has been lettered 'Siyasat-namah' since the original work from which the translation was made is referred to in the text as Siyasetname (f 2r). The text contains a single unvan. This manuscript was copied in 1204 AH (1789-90 CE).

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Purchased by the British Museum in 1928.

For more information about İsmail Müfit Efendi, see OM I, p. 243. For more information on Bursalı Dede Efendi, see OM I, p. 307. In Brockelmann, the title al-Siyāsat al-sharīᶜiyah fī iṣlāḥ al-rāᶜī wa'l-raᶜiyah (السياسة الشرعية في اصلاح الراعي والرعية) is applied to a work on government by Ibn Taymiyah (G. II, pp. 105, 446) and to another work on the same subject by İbrahim ibn-i Bahşizade, who died in 973 AH (1565-66 CE) (S. II, 124, No. 114). There is a copy of an Ottoman Turkish translation of the work by Ibn Taymiyah in Wrocław (Richet Un. 40/2) and another copy is mentioned in Karatay I, p. 600. Unfortunately, the first lines are not quoted.