Politics of honor in Ottoman Anatolia : sexual violence and socio-legal surveillance in the eighteenth century / by Basak Tug.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuğ, Başak, author.

Series:

Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 62.

The Ottoman empire and its heritage ; volume 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex crimes.

History.

Turkey--History--18th century.

Turkey.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Sex crimes--Turkey.

Criminal procedure--Turkey.

Criminal procedure.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 290 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

"In Politics of Honor, Başak Tuğ examines moral and gender order through the glance of legal litigations and petitions in mid-eighteenth century Anatolia. By juxtaposing the Anatolian petitionary registers, subjects' petitions, and Ankara and Bursa court records, she analyzes the institutional framework of legal scrutiny of sexual order. Through a revisionist interpretation, Tuğ demonstrates that a more bureaucratized system of petitioning, a farther hierarchically organized judicial review mechanism, and a more centrally organized penal system of the mid-eighteenth century reinforced the existing mechanisms of social surveillance by the community and the co-existing 'discretionary authority' of the Ottoman state over sexual crimes to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial 'disorder'"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Social and legal order in the eighteenth century

Justice, imperial public order, and Ottoman politico-judicial authority

Oligarchic rule and local notables in the eighteenth century

The Kanun as legal practice in the eighteenth century

Petitioning and intervention : a question of power

The imperial council and petitions as a reflection of imperial law in legal practice

Petitionary (Ahkam) registers and socio-legal surveillance

Reporting sexual violence

Actors, strategies, and rhetoric

Petitions as a mirror of local cleavages

Banditry, sexual violence, and honor

Sexual violence as a sign of "habituation" to violence

Sexual violence, honor, and the Imperial State

The repertoire of sexual crimes in the courts

Why fiil-i seni? (Indecent Act), but not zina

Other expressions used in the registers to describe sexual assaults

The penal order of eighteenth-century Anatolia

The enigma of crimes and punishment in the court records

Social and institutional limits to the authority of local judges

Under whose discretion was sexual and moral order?

In lieu of conclusion: Silence and outcry in the records.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Tuğ, Başak, author. Politics of honor in Ottoman Anatolia

ISBN:

9789004266971

9004266976

OCLC:

962552920