Ahmed bin Hüsameddin Amasi'nin Kitab-i Miratu`l-Muluk isimli eserinde yansıtıldığı şekilde Osmanlı Devleti'nin başlangıç döneminde siyaset düşüncesi

ABSTRACT Ahmed bin Husameddin Amasi's Mirat al-Mutuk was one of the earliest sources on the political literature of the Ottoman World, it was written in 1406 and submitted to Mehmet I (1413- 1421). Unlike the later Ottoman political works, Mirat al-Mutuk reflects the characteristics of inherited Islamic political literature; it is more abstract and deals with the general aspects of good government instead of offering practical solutions to the contemporary administrative problems. Mirat al-Mutuk combines the teaching of two tradition; Ahlak and Adab. Ahlak literature has its origin in ancient Greek philosophy, and Muslim philosophers followed the works of Aristotle, Plato and Galen as the masters of this literature. The first part of Mirat al-Mutuk was written in the style of Ahlak literature, and the main source of this part was Nasir al-Din Tusi's (1201-1274) Ahlak-i NasirL Kinalizade Ali Celebi's (1510-1572) Ahlak-i Alai was another example of this genre in the later Ottoman World and it was largely influenced by Ahlak-i NasirL The second part of Mirat al-Muluk depends on al- Ghazali' s (1058-1111) Nasihat al-Mutuk, a mirror for princes book written in the style of Persian Adab literature. In this study, the absorption of two pre-Islamic wisdom literature in the political works of Muslim thinkers, and the transmission of this heritage to the Ottoman world was examined in the light of Amasi's Mirat al- Mutuk.