Political Treatise of Minkarizade Dede Efendi

Abstract

Artifacts such as siyasatname drawn up with the point of view of guiding to managers for the achieving of fair politics. Altough prophet Muhammed’s period claimed to be incidence of siyasatname tradition, same sort of artifacts also en- countered before Islam period with different names. Point of views, propounded in political treatises after Islam period were supported with verses, hadiths and remarks of scholars. By this way it was claimed that things good and worse by means of religon also are good and worse in political field. In this framework artifact of Dede Efendi reflects common language of siyasatname propounded after Islam period. However, Dede Efendi in his siyasatname discussed problems mostly with Islamic law in theoretical manner. And this method gave an identity to the artifact a sort of Islamic law book. Siyasatname of Dede Efendi differenti- ate from classical siyasatname tradition by this characteristic