Uluslararası İnsan ve Sanat Araştırmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: Süleyman EROĞLU, Mustafa ULUOCAK

Konular:Beşeri Bilimler, Ortak Disiplinler

Anahtar Kelimeler:Politics,Siyasetname,Morality,Classical Turkish Literature,Tuhfetü’l-vüzera.

Özet: The books written to guide the sultans, the state's rulers, and the people governed by the state administration, and giving advice, are called siyasetname. Siyasetnames often guide and preach to people and are written to create the ideal type of state administration, ideal ruler, and human being. The first Turkish example of the genre of siyasetname that began to be seen in the Muslim Turkish world since the 11th century is Kutadgu Bilig written during the Karakhanids period. The second work, written about three hundred years after Kutadgu Bilig, is Şeyhoğlu Mustafa's Kenzü’l-kübera ve Mehekkü’l-ulema. Many essential works followed Kenzü'l-kübera in the following centuries, and through these works, the Ottoman political-moral thought has been carried to the present day. Tuhfetü'l-vüzera is one of the works written in the tradition of Ottoman politics and has not been done in any academic study until today. The work is registered in Süleymaniye Library, Ayasofya Section, number 2705. Tuhfetü'l-vüzera, which was copied in 1563 and reflects the characteristic language and spelling features of its period, is a work whose author is unknown. There are a total of one hundred and sixty advices under forty chapters in the work. Most of the advice in the content of Tuhfetü'l-vüzera was conveyed by some wise Iranian personalities and ancient Greek philosophers. In this article, the work in question has been examined and the text of the work has been included in order to contribute to the comparative studies to be made on the siyasetnames.

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