The Will of Murad II
Koyama, Kôichirô
Hokkaido University
35th Meeting of the PIAC, Taipei 1992
The Başvekalet Arşivi in İstanbul has in its possession a will of Murad II, in its Arabic original and Osmanli translation, dated 1446. Both texts have been published by Halil Inalcik with introduction. The document is analyzed here with a special reference to the reason why it had to be drawn up