Firman

thumb |A Fat'h Ali Shah Qajar firman in Shekaste Nastaliq script, January 1831

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Etymology
Origins of firmans in the Ottoman Empire
Organization
Examples of Ottoman firmans
Firman of Murad (26 October – 23 November 1386)
Firman of Mehmed the Conqueror (30 August 1473)
Firman of Mehmed IV (1648–1687)
Other firmans
Other uses
Gallery
See also
References
Further reading

thumb |A Fat'h Ali Shah Qajar firman in Shekaste Nastaliq script, January 1831

A firman (; ), at the constitutional level, was a royal mandate or decree issued by a sovereign in an Islamic state. During various periods such firmans were collected and applied as traditional bodies of law. The English word firman comes from the Persian meaning "decree" or "order".