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The history of anatomical engagement. [PDF]
Wessels Q, Taylor AM.
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8th International Conference on the History of Occupational and Environmental Health (ICOH History 2026), Recognizing the rich history of occupational and environmental health. [PDF]
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Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the shape and impact of piracy in the eastern half of the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire’s administrative, legal, and diplomatic response. In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, piracy had a tremendous effect on the formation of international law, the conduct of diplomacy, the articulation
Joshua M. White
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Piracy and law in the Ottoman Mediterranean
Joshua White’s Piracy and Law unpacks the idea of an Ottoman Mediterranean, a unified legal space extending over large areas East of the Strait of Messina, with a particular focus on Cyprus waters, the Adriatic and the Aegean seas, and equally comprising Orthodox, Jewish and Muslim subjects under the aegis of the Islamic rule of law.
Apellániz, Francisco
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The term “secularization” is used to qualify that manner of change which occurred in the Islamic system of civil law from 1451 to 1926. It refers to the processes that caused gradual revision and/or change in Islamic Ottoman and Turkish civil law and connotes a departure from the orthodox tenets prescribed by Islamic law.
Dora Glidewell Nadolski
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The cultivation of wasteland in Hanafī and Ottoman law
In Hanafī law, a person who cultivates wasteland, provided he meets certain conditions, becomes the owner of the land. In Ottoman law, this rule could not apply, since land, outside a few mulk properties, was at the disposal of the sultan and not subject to ownership.
Imber, Colin
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The Subjects of Ottoman International Law
"The core of this edited volume originates from a special issue of the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (JOTSA) that goes well beyond the special issue to incorporate the stimulating discussions and insights of two Middle East ...
Can, Lâle, +3 more
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Prostitution, Islamic Law and Ottoman Societies
AbstractThis article examines the treatment of prostitution in several genres of Ottoman legal writing—manuals and commentaries of Islamic jurisprudence,fatwās(legal opinions) andḳānūnnāmes(Sultanic legislation)—and looks at how prostitution was dealt with in practice by the empire’s sharīʿa courts and by its provincial executive authorities.
James E. Baldwin, Baldwin, James E.
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