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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn all, this collection of essays, while not for the lay reader, is a welcome scholarly contribution to the study of law and legal affairs in the Ottoman Empire, with an emphasis on legal reforms, the politics of managing empire-citizen relationships, and institutional legal responses to challenges from Western powers. As such, this volume opens a new perspective for historians to develop and explore further.
* Middle East Quarterly *
Table of Contents1 The Editors: Introduction
2 Timothy Fitzgerald: Reaching the Flocks: Literacy and the Mass Reception of Ottoman Law in the Sixteenth-Century Arab World
3 Hadi Hosainy: Ottoman Legal Practice and Non-Judicial Actors in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul
4 Michael Nizri: Defining Village Boundaries at the Time of the Introduction of the Malikane System: The Struggle of the Ottoman State for Reaffirming Ownership of the Land
5 M. Safa Saraçoğlu: Economic Interventionism, Islamic Law and Provincial Government in the Ottoman Empire
6 Kenneth M. Cuno: Reorganization of the Sharia Courts of Egypt: How Legal Modernization Set Back Women's Rights in the Nineteenth Century
7 Nora Barakat: Regulating Land Rights in Late Nineteenth-Century Salt: The Limits of Legal Pluralism in Ottoman Property Law
8 Samy Ayoub: The Mecelle, Sharia, and the Ottoman State: Fashioning and Refashioning of Islamic Law in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
9 Kenty F. Schull: Criminal Codes, Crime, and the Transformation of Punishment in the Late Ottoman Empire
10 Ellinor Morack: Refugees, Locals, and "The" State: Property Compensation in the Province of Izmir Following the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923
11 Index
