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Law and Legality in the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey

Edited by:  Kent F. Schull,   Saracolu, M. Safa, Robert F. Zens

ISBN13: 9780253020925
Published: January 2016
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: USA
Format: Paperback
Price: £18.99



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The editors of this volume have gathered leading scholars on the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey to chronologically examine the sweep and variety of sociolegal projects being carried in the region. 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.

Subjects:
Legal History, European Jurisdictions, Turkey
Contents:
1. The Editors: Introduction
2. Timothy Fitzgerald: Reaching the Flocks: Literacy and the Mass Reception of Ottoman Law in the Sixteenth-Century Arab World
3. Hadi Hosainy: Ottoman Legal Practice and Non-Judicial Actors in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
4. Michael Nizri: 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
5. M. Safa Saracolu: Economic Interventionism, Islamic Law and Provincial Government in the Ottoman Empir
6. Kenneth M. Cuno: Reorganization of the Sharia Courts of Egypt: How Legal Modernization Set Back Women's Rights in the Nineteenth Century
7. Nora Barakat: Regulating Land Rights in Late Nineteenth-Century Salt: The Limits of Legal Pluralism in Ottoman Property Law
8. Samy Ayoub: The Mecelle, Sharia, and the Ottoman State: Fashioning and Refashioning of Islamic Law in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
9. Kenty F. Schull: Criminal Codes, Crime, and the Transformation of Punishment in the Late Ottoman Empire 10 Ellinor Morack: Refugees, Locals, and "The" State: Property Compensation in the Province of Izmir Following the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923
11. Index