单词 | hatti humayun |
释义 | hatti humayunn. Now historical. Frequently with capital initials. In the Ottoman Empire: a decree or edict issued by the government and approved by the Sultan personally by means of a handwritten note or sign, and thereby considered to be irrevocable. Also (with the): spec. the Hatti Humayun of 1856 which aimed to establish equality between Ottoman subjects regardless of faith or ethnicity. Cf. firman n., hatti sherif n. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > edict, decree, ordinance, or institute > Turkish or oriental firman1616 hatti sherif1648 hatti humayun1828 hatti1858 irade1883 1828 tr. T. H. Bianchi in Oriental Herald May 311 The figures necessary for the work having been put in order and corrected by the author, he [sc. the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire] issued a hatti-humayoun [Fr. un khatti humayoun]..by order of which, the work was to be printed at the imperial library. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 651/2 The Porte published a firman, the Hatti-Humaiun, professing to abolish ‘every distinction making any class of the subjects of the empire inferior to any other class’. 1912 E. Pears Life Abdul Hamid (1917) x. 204 The famous Hatti-hu-mayun, the Magna Carta of liberty for the Christians. 1961 B. Lewis Emergence Mod. Turkey xi. 357 A Hatt-i Humayun from the Sultan to the Grand Vezir Said Paşa declared the constitution to be fully effective and in force again. 2001 Al-Ahram Weekly (Nexis) 4 Mar. One of the Ottoman-period laws that remain most relevant to Egyptian Christians today is the 1856 Hatt-i Humayun. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1828 |
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