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Modernity, Reception, and Transformation in 19th-Century Ottoman Law: Transplantation of Concordat into Turkish Legal History

İstanbul Hukuk Mecmuası
The 19th century was a watershed for the modernization of Ottoman law. The codifications and transplantations of the 19th century included Kânûnnâme-i Ticâret (1850), a commercial code transplanted from French law, more specifically Code de commerce ...
Ali Ekber Cinar
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‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, 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

History, 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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Let Your Will be in Your Hand if I Don’t Come: The Provisions of Tafwīz al-Talaq Reflected in Fatwas in Ottoman Family Law and Its Function as an Intra-Madhhab Remedy

İslam Tetkikleri Dergisi, 2022
This study focuses on the provisions of the tafwīz al-talaq as reflected in the fatwas and the function of the tafwīz al-talaq as a remedy within the madhhab in Ottoman family law.
Muharrem Midilli
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

History, 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
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Osmanlı Devleti’nde Yabancı Ülke Diplomatik Temsilcilerinin Yargı Dokunulmazlığı

Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi
Bu çalışmada diplomasi, diplomatik temsilci ve diplomatik temsilcilerin sahip oldukları dokunulmazlık ve ayrıcalıkların tanımı yapılmış ve bu kavramların İslam-Osmanlı hukuku açısından nasıl değerlendirildiğine yer verilmiştir. İslam hukukunda diplomatik
Emine Sümeyye Kökçam
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COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent, Tular Sudarmadi, Bakti Setiawan   +2 more
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What Kind of End for the Ottoman Empire? [PDF]

Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History, 2018
In 19th-century Europe, the juridical texture of space changed entirely. The state came to dominate the new normative and ontological landscape, inducing homogeneity.
Eliana Augusti
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Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio, Ariel Lopez, Birgit Tremml‐Werner   +2 more
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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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