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Prostitution, Islamic Law and Ottoman Societies

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2012
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.
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Ottoman religion, law and culture

AbstractThe Koran condemned sodomy, and the ḥadīths were strongly hostile to it. While condemning such sexual acts, however, Islamic culture accepted that male desire for a good-looking boy was natural. In the Sufi tradition, the contemplation of young male beauty was regarded by some as a way of drawing closer to God, the creator of it; anti-Sufi ...
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Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean

2017
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
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Ottoman Crımınal Law Regulatıons After The Tanzımat

2022
Osmanlı hukuku esas itibariyle İslam hukukuna dayanmaktadır. İslam hukukunun devlet başkanına düzenleme yapma yetkisi verdiği alanlarda ise hukuka aykırı olmamak şartıyla kanunnâmeler düzenlenmiştir. Bu tür düzenlemelerin yapıldığı alanlardan biri de ceza hukukudur. Osmanlı’da örfî hukuk kapsamında değerlendirilen ve ceza hukukuna ilişkin düzenlemelere
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Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo

2016
A study of Islamic law and political power in the Ottoman Empire’s richest provincial city What did Islamic law mean in the early modern period, a world of great Muslim empires? Often portrayed as the quintessential jurists’ law, to a large extent it was developed by scholars outside the purview of the state ...
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OTTOMAN INFLUENCE ON JORDANIAN FAMILY LAW

2003
Although it is known that Ottoman Family Law, issued in 1917, remained in effect for some times in the countries that were lost by the Ottomans after the First World War, and influenced their Family Law; there is no study showing the extend of this influence. This study examines its influence on Jordanian Family Law.
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The “Subjects” of Ottoman International Law

Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2016
null Lâle Can, null Michael Christopher Low   +1 more
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DISCOVERY PRACTICES IN OTTOMAN LAW (16-18th CENTURIES)

2023
In Ottoman law, discovery is an important legal procedure used to reveal evidence in a case, to distinguish between right and wrong and to prevent any future disputes or objections. In the Muhimme books, the court registers and the various document classifications in the Ottoman Archives, there are examples of discoveries on every imaginable issue ...
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Ottoman International Law?

Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2016
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Law and State in Ottoman Political Thought

Abstract Early modern Ottoman political discourse, as mainly articulated in histories and treaties on statecraft, focused on the question of law as the foundation of state and good governance. Principle components and sources of law, the relationship between religion, tradition, and imperial rulings, as well as its boundaries and ...
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