著者

澤田 稔

出版者

日本中東学会

雑誌

日本中東学会年報 (ISSN:09137858)

巻号頁・発行日

no.3, pp.198-218, 1988-03-31

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Four documents presented in this article are preserved in the Basbakanlik Osmanli Arsivi (BOA) in Istanbul. The classification and numbers of the documents are: (1): Hatt-i Humayun Tasnifi, No.56129 (2): ditto ,No.56206 (3): ditto ,No.56118 (4): ditto ,No.56210 According to the catalog kept in the reading room of BOA, the date of the four documents is 1204 A.H., imperial decrees (hatt-i humayun) written in the upper spaces of the documents (1)(3) are ascribed to Sultan Selim III, and as to kind of the documents, (1)(3) are telhis, (2) is pusula, (4) is takrir. We consider (1)(2)(3) to be written by a sadrazam, (4) was written by a Naksbendi seyh, named Seyyid Yahya. The documents are concerned with an Uzbek named Dost Muhammed Bahadir. He was originally from Kokand in Central Asia, and in the service of the ruler of Kokand, namely Narbuta Beg. He won fame for his activity in some battle fields, and had made pilgrimage to Mecca. Dost Muhammed again intended to make pilgrimage to Mecca, and departed from Kokand for Istanbul in Ramazan 1202 A.H.(1788 A.D.). But he gave up the idea of going on to Mecca after arriving in Istanbul, and wished to participate in an Ottoman war against infidels. He made petition to the Ottoman government for granting horses, guns, swords and traveling expenses to him and his four comrades. Seyyid Yahya who was a Naksbendi seyh of an Uzbek tekke (zaviye) near Sokollu Mehmed Pasa mosque at Sultanahmed district in Istanbul (BOA, Cevdet Tasnifi, Evkaf No.16241), wrote about the career of Dost Muhammed in a petition to the Ottoman sultan, probably Selim III. The Ottoman sultan instructed a pasa to send Dost Muhammed and his comrades to the battle field, giving them traveling expenses. Thus the four Ottoman documents not only relate the personal history of Dost Muhammed, but also show a function of an Uzbek tekke in Istanbul. The outline of the documents, Japanese translation, modern Turkish transcription and the Ottoman text are presented in this article.