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Ramazan Tenbihnâmeleri are official regulations issued by the Ottoman state to ensure the peaceful continuation of religious observances and the maintenance of social order during the holy month of Ramazan, which holds profound social and religious significance. These documents make visible the state’s regulatory intent in the public sphere through a framework of “warning–monitoring–sanction.”Common themes in these texts include the cleanliness and order of places of worship, measures to ensure

Huzur lessons (full name: Huzûr-ı Hümâyun dersleri) were systematic exegetical discussions conducted in the presence of the Ottoman sultan by Islamic scholars during the month of Ramadan. These lessons constituted one of the highest intellectual platforms where scholarship and politics converged, continuing the Islamic tradition of “muhâdara.” In these assemblies, attended personally by the sultan, verses of the Qur’an were examined from linguistic, jurisprudential and theological perspectives,