{"product_id":"land-and-legal-texts-in-the-early-modern-ottoman-empire-9780755647682","title":"Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMalissa Taylor \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Her published articles have appeared in \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient and The Journal of Ottoman Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA mind-blowing and innovative study of the supposedly dry subject of Ottoman land law, gracefully written and designed to overturn all your stereotypes of Islamic law, sultanic power, and Ottoman decline. Taylor is to be congratulated on her deeply original take on obscure but vitally important aspects of imperial legal modernization. * Linda T. Darling, Professor, University of Arizona, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis book shows how three centuries of legislation and legal interpretation, instead of a European model, underlay the Ottoman land code of 1858. Deeply researched and cogently argued, it upends much that we thought we knew about Ottoman history from the age of Süleyman to the Tanzimat era. * Kenneth M. Cuno, Professor, University of Illinois, USA *\u003cbr\u003eTaylor boldly reinterprets the foundational relationship among land\/property rights, law\/legal authorities and sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. This ambitious, lucid and compact study recasts peasant cultivators as holding a “bundle of property rights” that slowly “trickled up” to model property rights among the highest-ranking property holders in the empire by the eighteenth century, enduring through land law reforms in the nineteenth. Whether accepted or challenged, Taylor’s reconceptualization of the Ottoman agrarian state and society offers a fulcrum for rethinking the entire history of the empire. _____________________________ * Amy Singer, Professor, Brandeis University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Sources Harmonization and Sovereignty Property: Bundles and Layers 1. Lifelong \u003ci\u003etasarruf\u003c\/i\u003e, Land Tenure Practices, and Law over the \u003ci\u003elongue durée\u003c\/i\u003e             Ottoman territories and varieties of tenure for the military             class             Cultivator Tenure and its legal Systemization              Military fiscal change and land tenure             Land tenure rights trickle up             The Old and the New 2. Conquering a New Terrain: Establishing the Sultan’s Legislative Authority Texts and Contexts  “Preserved in the Bayt al-Mal”: Acquiring Land for the           Treasury  “Neither Tithe nor \u003ci\u003eKharaji\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e”: \u003c\/i\u003eThe Status of the Land for Transaction and Tax Building a coherent law Conclusion 3. Canonical Voices: Discretion and analogy in the formation of the harmony tradition of land tenure Contexts of the Text Pir Mehmed and Sultanic Latitude The Formation of a Tradition: Deferential and not so Deferential        Interpretation Conclusion 4. “The Books of \u003ci\u003eFiqh\u003c\/i\u003e”: The \u003ci\u003eKanunname of Candia\u003c\/i\u003e and the Consolidation of a New Doctrine in Hanafi Academic Texts Harmony at a crossroads The \u003ci\u003eKanunname\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eof Candia\u003c\/i\u003e as critique: Reinstituting the Hanafism of the “books” The Sultan as Legislator: texts, commentaries and fatwas The Change in Doctrine: the sultan has a choice Conclusion 5. The Age of the \u003ci\u003eMutasarrif\u003c\/i\u003es: Diffusion, Rights, and Discretion in the Eighteenth Century Background Convergence Expansive Transactions: Permission and Analogism Conclusion 6. From Harmony to Uniformity: Defensive Sovereignty and the Ottoman Nineteenth-Century Reforms \u003ci\u003eMiri Tasarruf\u003c\/i\u003e: Stability in a sea of change Creating a Normal Subject Codifying Islamic Law Defending Islam: From “built on the \u003ci\u003ekanun\u003c\/i\u003e” to “built on the \u003ci\u003efiqh\u003c\/i\u003e” Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037720936791,"sku":"9780755647682","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780755647682.jpg?v=1750936990","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/land-and-legal-texts-in-the-early-modern-ottoman-empire-9780755647682","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}