Firman

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A firman (Persian: فرمان, romanized: farmān; Turkish: ferman),^[1] at the constitutional level, was a royal mandate or decree issued by a sovereign in an Islamic state. During various periods such firmans were collected and applied as traditional bodies of law. The English word firman comes from the Persian farmān meaning "decree" or "order".