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A Study on the Visibility of Jews in Ottoman Courts: The Example of Hasköy Court (1612–1643)

Hamsa
This study examines the commercial, social and legal relations of Jews in the Ottoman Empire through the records of Hasköy Court Registry No. 5. Ottoman court registers are significant sources that provide valuable information in many areas such as ...
Talha Kaan Ünlü
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Institutions and gender empowerment in greece [PDF]

, 2008
Introduction:The Hellenic Republic (Greece) is a multiparty parliamentary democracy and a member of the European Union which has influenced standards for women’s rights.
Dellios, Rosita
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Moral Revolutions: The Politics of Piety in the Ottoman Empire Reimagined [PDF]

, 2019
Over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries an immense body of morality literature emerged in the Ottoman Empire as part of a widespread turn to piety.
Shafir, Nir
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The Ottoman state and descendants of the prophet in Anatolia and the Balkans (c. 1500-1700) [PDF]

, 2009
Throughout the Islamic world those claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad (T. seyyid/serif pl. sadat/esraf) were (and are) accorded a special status.
Hulya, Canbakal, Hülya, Canbakal
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Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma, Nick Kirsop‐Taylor, David Benson   +2 more
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Osmanlı Vakıflarının Tüzel Kişiliği Var mıydı? / Did Ottoman Waqfs have a Juristic Personality?

İnsan&İnsan Bilim Kültür Sanat ve Düşünce Dergisi, 2019
Tüzel kişilik kavramı ve kurumu özü itibariyle Batı Avrupa Hukuku’na aittir. İslam ve Osmanlı vakıflarının tüzel kişiliği ise literatürde yeterince irdelenmiş değildir.
Yakup Akkuş
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Off the Straight Path: Illicit Sex, Law and Community in Ottoman Aleppo / Living Palestine. Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation

Al-Raida Journal, 1970
Off the Straight Path: Illicit Sex, Law and Community in Ottoman AleppoElyse Semerdjian’s Off the Straight Path: Illicit Sex, Law and Community in Ottoman Aleppo is a pioneering study of sexual crime and punishment during the Ottoman period based on records in the archives of the Islamic courts of Aleppo, Syria.
Mary Ann Fay, Annelies Moors
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Franz Cumont’s Syrian tour: a Belgian archaeologist in the Ottoman empire [PDF]

, 2013
This paper highlights the Western scientific traveller as an intermediary between Orient and Occident around the turn of the nineteenth century by presenting a case study on the Belgian archaeologist and historian of religions, Franz Cumont (1868-1947 ...
Scheerlinck, Eline
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Demystifying Non‐Western Administrative Traditions: An Empirical Comparison of Administrative Systems in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes public administration systems in 29 non‐Western countries. Country‐level data is presented for 10 core aspects of administrative systems: managerialism versus legalism, politicization, personnel system, civil society participation, accountability, service orientation, public expenditure share, decentralization, legal ...
Marlene Jugl
wiley   +1 more source

'Thou glorious kingdome, thou chiefe of empires': Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature [PDF]

, 2009
Bringing together a range of little-considered materials, this article assesses the portrayal of Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature and drama.
Houston, Chloe
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