Abstract:

Yasincizade Abdulwahhab Efendi served five years as a shaykhulislam during t he r eign o f M ahmud I I, w ho w as one of t he most effective sultans of Ottoman modernization. And Yasincizade Abdulwahhab Efendi’s treatise titled KHulâsatu’l-Burhan fî İtaati’s-Sultan was one of the most important works of that period. For, the reforms of Mahmud II were supported by the religious proofs in this treatise. Thus, twenty-five hadiths of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) were presented within the tradition of writing forty-hadith so as to establish an integrity around the perspective of obeying the sultan. In this article, we aimed to contribute the studies on the history of Ottoman modernization by transcribing the Khulâsa. The hadiths recorded in the treatise are extracted and authenticated (takhrij). In order to determine the style that Yasincizade used in hadith translations, the hadith texts are matched with the translated ones. In addition, we stated the sources of the treatise and summarized the contents of hadiths. Then we wrote a short conclusion.

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