mohsen morsalpour
Abstract
Idris Bitlisi was one of the Bureaucrats of the Aq Quyunlu’s curt who took refuge in the Ottoman Empire and in the court of Sultan Bayezid II after the Safavid rule came to power. ...
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Idris Bitlisi was one of the Bureaucrats of the Aq Quyunlu’s curt who took refuge in the Ottoman Empire and in the court of Sultan Bayezid II after the Safavid rule came to power. He held important government official in the Ottoman Empire and left literary, historical, religious and even medical Books. One of the last ecclesiastical works was "Qanoon-e-Shahanshahi" in the ethics and customs of the Sultan, which he wrote for Sultan Selim. The "Qanoon-e-Shahanshahi" presented the requirements and functions of the Kingdom institution in Iran in the form of Gods gift and drew a favorable model of the Persian kings of justice and religion for the Ottoman sultan. The purpose of this article is to analyze the political thought of Idris Bitlisi and the influence of the tradition of writing Andarznameh with a focus on the Iranian Governmental model on the "Qanoon-e- Shahanshahi". Therefore, the present article is organized with an analytical approach and using the content analysis method based on these questions, from what ideas and sources Idris Bitlisi was influenced and how he proposed the model of Iranian Government in the "Qanoon-e-Shahanshahi". Findings show that Bitlisi has compiled the "Qanoon-e-Shahanshahi" in the context of the works of political ethics, but in terms of content and political thought by using the Andarznameh of predecessors such as the Siasatnameh and Nasihat-al-Muluk and the adaptation of thought Their political extension extended the tradition of writing Andarznameh on the axis of the Iranian Governmental model in the Ottoman Empire.
