ID	47
Author	Abdullah Halim Efendi
Work Title	SEYFÜ’l-İZZET İLA HAZRETİ SAHİBİ’D-DEVLET (the edition does not use the transliteration system)
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Manuscripts	library: Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi MS. number: Esat Efendi nr. 2292 no. of folios: 140 library: Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi MS. number: Esat Efendi nr. 1895/3 no. of folios:
Editions	Şahin, Ayşe. Abdullah Halim Efendi’nin Seyfü’l-İzzet İla Hazreti Sahibi’d-Devlet Adlı Kitabının Çevirim Yazısı ve Değerlendirmesi. MA thesis, İstanbul: Marmara University (2009).
Date	1791
Content Summary	The purpose of the work, which was written in accordance with the Siyasetname tradition, was that Grand Vizier İzzet Mehmet Pasha asked Abdullah Halim Efendi to offer advices on him for his duties. Chapter 3 deals with various crimes and punishments, such as the prosecution of women who practice magic. Chapter 6 again contains fatwas and states that those who practice magic and those who make a habit of it should be killed. The text mentions that it is not right to seek help from the graves of evliyas and that it is not permissible to sacrifice for evliyas. It is also mentioned that it is not right for Sufis to perform dances (raks), and to act on dreams.
Bibliography	Ocak, Ahmet Yaşar, “XVII. Yüzyılda Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Dinde Tasfiye (Püritanizm) Teşebbüslerine Bir Bakış: “Kadızâdeliler Hareketi””, Ankara, Türk Kültür Araştırmaları Yıllığı, (17-21, 1-2) 1979-1983. Yaycıoğlu, Ali. “Guarding Traditions and Laws, Disciplining Bodies and Souls: Tradition, Science, and Religion in the Age of Ottoman Reform,” Modern Asian Studies, 52, 5 (2018): 1594-1597. Sariyannis, Marinos. A History of Ottoman Political Thought up to the Early Nineteenth Century. Handbook of Oriental Studies 125 (Leiden: Brill, 2019). viii-categories literature; Sufism; magic; oniromancy ix-tags
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