Law and Legality in the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253020921 ISBN 13: 9780253020925

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Kent F. Schull is Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Middle East History at Binghamton University, SUNY. He is author of Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity and coeditor (with Christine Isom-Verhaaren) of Living in the Ottoman Realm: Empire and Identity, Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries.

M. Safa Saraçoğlu is Associate Professor of History at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Robert Zens is Associate Professor of History at LeMoyne College. Schull and Zens are coeditors of the Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies.

Review:

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In all, this collection of essays, while not for the lay reader, is a welcome scholarly contribution to the study of law and legal affairs in the Ottoman Empire, with an emphasis on legal reforms, the politics of managing empire-citizen relationships, and institutional legal responses to challenges from Western powers. As such, this volume opens a new perspective for historians to develop and explore further.

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(Middle East Quarterly)

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0253020921
• ISBN 13: 9780253020925
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Schull Kent F., Saraçoğlu M. Safa, Zens Robert