Firman
Sign in to savethumb |A Fat'h Ali Shah Qajar firman in Shekaste Nastaliq script, January 1831
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13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Origins of firmans in the Ottoman Empire
- Organization
- Examples of Ottoman firmans
- Firman of Murad (26 October – 23 November 1386)
- Firman of Mehmed the Conqueror (30 August 1473)
- Firman of Mehmed IV (1648–1687)
- Other firmans
- Other uses
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb |A Fat'h Ali Shah Qajar firman in Shekaste Nastaliq script, January 1831
A firman (; ), at the constitutional level, was a royal mandate or decree issued by a sovereign in an Islamic state. During various periods such firmans were collected and applied as traditional bodies of law. The English word firman comes from the Persian meaning "decree" or "order".