Osul al-Hokm fi Nezam al-Alam

• Original Title: Uṣūl al-Ḥukm fī Niẓām al-ʿĀlam
• English Title: Principles of Governance in the Order of the World
• Author: Ḥasan Kāfī al-Aqḥiṣārī al-Busnawī (951–1025 A.H.)
• Editor: ʿAlī-Akbar Ẓiyāʾī
• Language: Persian
• ISBN: 978-203-600-015-3
• Publication Year: 2011
• Pages: 128
• Format: PDF
• Category: Treatises
• Miras Maktoob Collection Code: 219

【Summary】

Uṣūl al-Ḥukm fī Niẓām al-ʿĀlam is one of the most significant works on Islamic political thought produced in the late Ottoman period. Written by Ḥasan Kāfī al-Aqḥiṣārī, a prominent Bosnian scholar of the Māturīdī theological tradition, the treatise examines the theoretical foundations of governance and analyzes the structural causes behind the strength and weakness of Islamic political systems.

The author was an influential intellectual figure in Bosnia and Herzegovina and composed numerous works in Arabic on theology, jurisprudence, logic, linguistics, and Arabic literature. This treatise is among the few major political works produced in the Balkans during the early modern Islamic world and attracted sustained scholarly attention in Europe. It has been studied and discussed in Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Hungarian, Turkish, Arabic, and German academic literature.