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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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2013 Delaware Family Law Commission Annual Report

open access: yes, 2014
2013 annual report of the Delaware Family Law ...
Family Law Commission
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Some Reflections on the Delicts of the First Criminal Code of the Republic of Albania

open access: yesJournal on European History of Law, 2016
The Criminal Code of 1928 or Zog’s Criminal Code has been initially published in 1929, about two years after the decree of June the 3d, 1927. The Code entered into force on January 1, 1928, together with the relevant appendixes. With the adoption of the
Engjëll Likmeta
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
wiley   +1 more source

Reform and Codification of Islamic Family Law in Turkey: From The Ottoman Law of Family Rights to the Turkish Civil Code of 1926

open access: yesAn-Nisa: Journal of Islamic Family Law
The reform of Islamic family law is a strategic issue in response to social, cultural, and legal justice changes in Muslim countries. Turkey became one of the most prominent examples of radical reforms to its family law through the transition from the fiqh system of the Hanafi school of fiqh and The Ottoman Law of Family Rights (1917) to the Turkish ...
null Zikry Rahmatillah   +6 more
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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

open access: yesAl-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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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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The Importance of Monsha'at and Sukuk by Abdulmomen Ahmad Isfarayini in Historical Studies [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش های تاریخی
Islamic documentary writing (wathāʾiq-nigārī) remains an underexplored source for historical research despite its rich economic and social data. This study investigates the late 9th/15th-century Persian treatise Monshātʾ and Ṣukūk by ʿAbd al-Muʾmin Aḥmad
Ismail Hassanzadeh, Salimeh Afrasiabi
doaj   +1 more source

The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
wiley   +1 more source

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