
thumb |A Fat'h Ali Shah Qajar firman in Shekaste Nastaliq script, January 1831
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".
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