Law and legality in the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey / edited by Kent F. Schull, M. Safa Saracoglu, and Robert Zens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schull, Kent F., editor.

Saracoglu, M. Safa, editor.

Zens, Robert, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Turkey--History.

Law.

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

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These efforts intersect issues of property, gender, legal literacy, the demarcation of village boundaries, the codification of Islamic law, economic liberalism, crime and punishment, and refugee rights across the empire and the Aegean region of the Turkish Republic.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 Reaching the Flocks: Literacy and the Mass Reception of Ottoman Law in the Sixteenth-Century Arab World; 2 Ottoman Legal Practice and Non-Judicial Actors in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul; 3 Defining Village Boundaries at the Time of the Introduction of the Malikane System: The Struggle of the Ottoman State for Reaffirming Ownership of the Land; 4 Economic Interventionism, Islamic Law and Provincial Government in the Ottoman Empire; 5 Reorganization of the Sharia Courts of Egypt: How Legal Modernization Set Back Women's Rights in the Nineteenth Century

6 Regulating Land Rights in Late Nineteenth-Century Salt: The Limits of Legal Pluralism in Ottoman Property Law7 The Mecelle, Sharia, and the Ottoman State: Fashioning and Refashioning of Islamic Law in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; 8 Criminal Codes, Crime, and the Transformation of Punishment in the Late Ottoman Empire; 9 Refugees, Locals and "The" State: Property Compensation in the Province of Izmir Following the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253021007

0253021006

OCLC:

938788102