Bingöl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi

Abstract

While Islamic scholars were guiding the society in religious matters, they also had important ideas on social and political issues that concern the society and developed solution-oriented approaches to these issues. In this context, Ahmed-i Hani, one of the important scholars lived in the Ottoman Bayezid province, mystics and thinkers of the 17th century, touched on important points about the rulers in his works. In this study Hani's observations from last the second half of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth century, as well as his views on state administrators in his works, are reviewed. As a consequence of his interactions with the local lords in the Bayezid sanjak as part of his responsibilities, Ahmed-i Hani was able to observe the condition of the local administrators in the management mechanism.
In the fact that, Hani mentioned the characteristics that a ruler should have in his works in detail, and stated that the main characteristics of a ruler should be justice, compassion and courage. Hani, states in his works that rulers are not very merciful to people and they do not act justly. However, Ahmed-i Hani did not always have a negative attitude towards the rulers. There were also local gentlemen whom he sometimes praised and wrote eulogies about in his works. In this study, the perception of management in Ahmed-i Hani's works and his perspective on the rulers of the period will be discussed in detail in the context of historical sources.