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Country

France

City

Paris

Institution

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Collection

Manuscrits Turcs

Shelfmark

Supplément turc 1120

Contents

Fusṭat al-‘adālah fī qawāʻid al-Sulṭanah (Anonymous)

Author

Anonymous

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Author

Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin Maḥmūd al-Khaṭīb, fl. 13th c.,

محمد بن محمد بن محمود الخطیب

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Muḥammad bin Muḥammad bin Maḥmūd al-Khaṭīb, fl. 13th century (authorised)

محمد بن محمد بن محمود الخطیب (variant)

Biographical notes

He Is the attributed author of the Fusṭat al-‘adālah fī qawāʻid al-Sulṭanah (فسطط العداله فی قواعد السلطنه). Little is know about his life exept for his proximity to the local rulers of Kastamonu İli (Turkey) in the 13th century [1200-1299 CE]. From his work, he appears as an educated person versed in religious literature and Persian political treatises. ( (De Nicola, Bruno. "The Fusṭāṭ al-ʿadāla: a unique Manuscript on the Religious Landscape of Medieval Anatolia." In Literature and Intellectual Life in Islamic Anatolia in the 14th-15th Centuries: Historical, Social and Political Perspectives. Würzburg: 2016.))

Title

Fusṭat al-‘adālah fī qawāʻid al-Sulṭanah

فسطاط العدالة في قواعد السلطنة

Notes

A work covering a variety of genres. The initial part is a treatise on the heterodox sects of Islam while the second is a mirror for princes adapted from the fampous work Siyāsatʹnāmah (سياست نامه) or Siyar al-mulūk (سير الملوک)of Niẓām al-Mulk, 1018-1092

Dedicated in f. 69 to the Amir Muẓaffar al-Dīn Mas‘ūd bin Alpak, fl. 1290مظفر الدین مسعود بن البرک

The text was composed during the reign of Ghiyās̲ al-Dīn Masʻūd Shāh II, Sultan of the Seljuks of Rūm, d. 1308, غياث الدین مسعود شاه around 1283-4 [1283-1284 CE].

Main language of text

Persian

Bibliography

MS Studies

De Nicola, Bruno. "The Fusṭāṭ al-ʿadāla: a unique Manuscript on the Religious Landscape of Medieval Anatolia." In Literature and Intellectual Life in Islamic Anatolia in the 14th-15th Centuries: Historical, Social and Political Perspectives. Würzburg: 2016.

Turan, Osman. "Selcuk Turkiyesi Din Tarihine Dair Yeni Bir Kaynak." In Fuad Koprulu Armagani. Ankara: 1953, 523-64.

Catalogue

Blochet, Edgar. Catalogue des manuscrits turcs. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, 1932-33, Supplement Turc 1120.

Physical Description

Number of folios

118 ff.

Dimensions of folio

width 15.5cm, height 20.5cm

History

Place

Anatolia

Date of copy

16th. century