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The central government seriously warned provincial governors to overlook any<br />

bribery or preferential treatment on this affair. 1012 Inspectors were commissioned to<br />

investigate the situation. The Porte insistently ordered local governors to report<br />

periodically how many sufis were detained and executed. In one decree issued in evāhir-<br />

i Zilhicce 906 (8-17 July 1501), Prince Şehinshah, the governor of Konya, was ordered<br />

to record and report to the Porte how many sufis had been detained and put to death<br />

since the former decree, which explained the definite order of the sultan to detain and<br />

execute sufis arriving to and returning from the upper side, had arrived. He was also<br />

ordered to report monthly how many sufis had been put to death. 1013<br />

This decree indicates another interesting point, which is absent in the others. It<br />

gives details on judicial aspects of these executions. It is explained that any claims of<br />

executed sufis’ relatives would not be accepted by Ottoman trials. Thus, those officials<br />

in charge of executing sufis should not worry on that. No demands of executed sufis’<br />

relatives would be regarded as lawful. 1014<br />

itdürsem gerek. Şöyleki bunların siyāseti bābında ihmal olunmuş bulunacak olursa senün lalalarından<br />

olsun Hüdavendigar-enarallahu burhanehu- ruhiyçun azille konmayub mu’ateb bi’l- mu’akab olurlar ve<br />

ger subaşılardan ve sipāhilerden ve senün bāb-ı sa’adet me’ābun halkından olsun ve sair halktan olsun ol<br />

halās itdükleri kimesne yirine gendüleri salb itdürsem gerekdür. Şöyle bileler. Ve sen dahi her üç ayda bir<br />

taht-ı hükümetünde vilayeti teftiş itdürüb kaziyye ne vechile olub ve kaç nefer-i sufi salb olındığını malum<br />

idinüb dahı tefāsiliyle yazub dergāh-ı mu’allāma i’lām eyleyesiz. Ve subaşılardan ve sipāhilerden her kim<br />

benüm emrim yerine koyub ol sufileri siyaseten salb ide, anun bu hizmeti benüm ‘izz-i huzūrumda<br />

pasendīde vāki’ olub enva’-ı ināyetümle mer’ī ve mahzūz olalar. Şöyle bilesiz, alamet-i şerife i’timad<br />

idesiz!” See Ahkām Defteri, pp. 78-9, decree 281.<br />

1012 See, for example, Ahkām Defteri, pp. 78-9, decree 281: “Bir kaç aydan sonra yarar ādemler ve<br />

mūtemed kimesneler gönderüb bu husussiyyātı alâ vechin bi’l-ihtimam teftiş itdürsem gerek.”<br />

1013 “Bundan evvel hükm-ü hümāyun gönderüb “Yukaru tarafa varan Ardabil sufilerinden varışda ve<br />

gelişde bulunanun siyāset idesiz” diyu buyurmuşdum. Ol bābda hāliya şöyle buyurdum ki ihtimam-i tam<br />

üzere olub sabıka gönderilen hükm-i hümayunum mucebince amel idüb mezbūr sufilerden ele girenün<br />

mecal virmeyüb siyāset itdüresiz. Ve ol bābda gönderilen hükm-ü hümāyunum tarihinden şimdiyedek ne<br />

denlü sufi siyaset olunmuşdur defter idüb dergāh-ı mu’allāma gönderesiz. Ve bundan böyle ayda bir, iki<br />

ayda bir, ne denlü sufi siyāset olunursa defter idüb göndermek ardınca olasız. Fi’l-cümle ol bābda<br />

gönderilen hükm-ü hümāyunı icra idüb emrümü ihmal itmeyüb yirine komak ardınca olasız!” See Ahkām<br />

Defteri, p. 126, decree 454.<br />

1014 Veinstein regards this sentence as a part of judicial arrangements of Ottoman law regarding tribal<br />

affairs. “…La dimension tribale de l’affaire ressort une nouvelle fois ici: l’exécution des consignes du<br />

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