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Ottoman and Secular Civil Law

International Journal of Middle East Studies, 1977
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.
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Piracy and law in the Ottoman Mediterranean

Mediterranean Historical Review, 2021
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.
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Civilizational Exceptions: Ottoman Law and Governance in Late Ottoman Palestine

Law and History Review, 2018
AbstractThis article examines the Ottoman extension of rule and jurisdiction to the Beersheba frontier of southern Palestine. As part of itsTanzimatreform policies, the Ottoman administration founded the new town and sub-district of Beersheba in 1900, and sought to implement a legal reform.
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Translating Ottoman Justice: Ragusan Dragomans As Interpreters of Ottoman Law

Islamic Law and Society, 2014
This article focuses on strategies of legal translation and interpretation adopted by dragomans of the Ottoman tributary state of the Republic of Ragusa. Based on hüccets, iʿlāms and draft-documents (minute) from the Turkish Chancellery of the Republic of Ragusa that shed light on the multiple roles played by Ragusan dragomans in Ottoman-Ragusan legal ...
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The Ottoman Empire and International Law

2021
The Ottoman Empire has long been a marginal subject in both the history and theory of international law. With the imperial turn in historiography and the postcolonial turn to history in legal studies, researchers challenge the stereotype of “the Sick Man of Europe,” paying due attention to the Ottomans’ own understanding of international law and ...
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Law in the Ottoman Empire

2015
This article examines Ottoman law within the context of Islamic law. It first considers the fetva (Arabic, fatwa) collections as important sources shedding light on Ottoman law and their relation to kadi rulings, along with the methodological problems besetting the kadi court records as a historical source.
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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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