%0 Journal Article %T Rasih of Bal£¿kesir and His B¨¹lgat¨¹¡¯l-Ahbab Work %A Selim £¿NLER %J - %D 2019 %X The forms of politeness books, which were specific to the elite groups until the 19th century, have become works that are also accessible to the public with the technical developments and Westernization movements. One of the works has written before this period is B¨¹lgat¨¹¡¯l-Ahbab written by Bal£¿kesirli Rasih. We do not have enough information about his life despite the deep-rooted family of Bal£¿kesirli Rasih that also known as Rasih Ahmed Beg, who lived in the 17th and 18th centuries. Except from his repeated voiced ode which named ¡°¨¹stine¡± is referred to him, the other works of him are not known well. One of these works is B¨¹lgat¨¹¡¯l-Ahbab, a social and political book in which he discusses many different subjects from manners to historical events. B¨¹lgat¨¹¡¯l-Ahbab, which has never studied before, has many copies. In this study, it is aimed to give information about Rasih and and his work B¨¹lgat¨¹¡¯l-Ahbab %K Bal£¿kesirli Rasih %K Rasih Ahmed Beg %K B¨¹lgat¨¹¡¯l-Ahbab %K Osmanl£¿ T¨¹rk£¿esi %K adab£¿mua£¿eret %U http://dergipark.org.tr/sosbilder/issue/46266/565096