A "ferman" of Sultan Mustafa III from 1769.

Wikipedia: "A firman (Persian: فرمان‎ farmân), or ferman (Turkish), at the constitutional level, was a royal mandate or decree issued by a sovereign in an Islamic state, namely the Ottoman Empire. During various periods they were collected and applied as traditional bodies of law. The word firman comes from Persian فرمان meaning "decree" or "order". "