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A Law One Hundred Years Young: The Interpretative Viability of the Ottoman Family Law in Palestine/Israel, 1917–2017

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2022
Abstract The article aims at illustrating the “interpretative viability” of the Ottoman Family Code of 1917—i.e., its susceptibility to changing interpretations—and to discuss some of the interpretative tools that qāḍīs have applied to it over the years.
I. Shahar
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A Prolonged Abrogation? The Capitulations, the 1917 Law of Family Rights, and the Ottoman Quest for Sovereignty during World War 1

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2020
AbstractThe 1917 promulgation of a new Ottoman family law is recognized as a landmark moment in the history of Islamic law by scholars of women and gender in the Middle East. Yet the significance of the 1917 law in the struggle over religious jurisdiction, political power, and Ottoman sovereignty has been overlooked in the scholarship on both Ottoman ...
Kate Dannies, Stefan Hock
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Jews in the Ottoman Millet System and Their Judicial Status: A Family Law Review

Ilahiyat Studies, 2013
İstanbul’un fethi ile birlikte “Millet Sistemi” esasına göre şekillenen Osmanlı toplumunda, bu toplumu oluşturan milletlerin, yani farklı din mensupları ve zümrelerinin din ve düşünce hürriyetleri garanti altına alınmış; buna ilaveten verilen kimi özerklikler doğrultusunda, özel hukuk alanına giren hukûkî işlemler ya da olaylar her milletin kendi ...
A. Yaman
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Changing Personal Status Codes as a Discriminated Minority: Aspirations and Pitfalls Around the Possibility to Amend the 1917 Ottoman Law of Family Rights for Muslim Palestinians in Israel

Arab Law Quarterly
Abstract The article contributes to scholarly discussion of the codification of Islamic law in modern times by looking at the case of the codification and application of Islamic family law in Israel. It focuses on the debate that arose around a proposal of a new family rights’ law for Muslims in Israel by Palestinian Muslim feminists in 2015.
Nijmi Edres
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Albanian Civil Code 1929 as Part of the European Family of Civil Law

Access to Justice in Eastern Europe, 2023
Background: The Civil Code would dictate the affiliation of Albanian civil law to the Romano- Germanic family, finally separating it from Ottoman law. This Code, to this day, preserves its contemporary character, individuality, and integrity, not only ...
Ardian Raif Emini
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Reforming Family Law: Social and Political Change in Jordan and Morocco. Dörthe Engelcke, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Pp. 284. $99.99 cloth. ISBN: 9781108496612

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2020
Palestinian public. Indeed, Brownson asserts that the shariʿa courts were “the only institution [Muslims] were permitted to control under British rule,” which reinforced the patriarchal authority of the courts, and muted attempts at family law reform (p.
Eda Pepi
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International Law and the Precarity of Ottoman Sovereignty in Africa at the End of the Nineteenth Century

International History Review, 2020
As a state that occupied an unstable position on the continuum of late nineteenth-century European inter-imperial system of sovereignty—oscillating between a subject and an object of new forms of imperialism—I argue that the Ottoman Empire presents a ...
Mostafa Minawi
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