Local court, provincial society, and justice in the Ottoman Empire : legal practice and dispute resolution in Çankırı and Kastamonu (1652-1744) /
This work covers the functions of Islamic courts within the framework of the late 17th- and early 18th-century Ottoman provincial administration, and explores the process of adjudication and dispute resolution through a juxtaposition of court records from two Anatolian towns, Cankiri and Kastamonu.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston, Mass. :
Brill,
2003.
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Colección: | Studies in Islamic law and society ;
v. 17. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter One Introduction
- Sources
- Chapter Two Two Sub-Provinces, Two Towns, Two Courts
- Çankiri and Kastamonu: Historical Background
- The Courts of Çankiri and Kastamonu
- Chapter Three A Comparative Analysis of the Operations of Çankiri and Kastamonu Courts
- Contents of the Court Records
- The Kadi as an Intermediary
- Conclusion
- Chapter Four Litigants, Litigations, and Resolutions: A Statistical Analysis
- Classification of the Disputes in the Court Records.
- Courts, Clients, and ""Justice""
- Balance of Power in the Court
- Conclusion
- Chapter Five Costs of Court Usage
- Tax Records
- Inheritance Registries
- Conclusion
- Chapter Six The Court Process I: Alternative Approaches to Kadiship, Court, and Legal ""Corruption""
- The Ottoman Kadi and Court in the Secondary Literature
- A Critique
- ""Corruption"" and Its Uses
- A Case Study: Hans Ulrich Krafft's Memoirs
- Conclusion
- Chapter Seven Intermission: Sicil as Text
- Recording the Proceedings
- Problems of Representation in the Court Records
- Conclusion.
- Chapter Eight The Court Process II: Strategies of Litigation
- Strategy and Legal Competence in Disputes between Individual Litigants
- Community in Action
- Conclusion
- Chapter Nine Alternative Sites for Dispute Resolution
- Official Alternatives to Local Courts
- Unofficial Sites for Dispute Resolution
- Ambiguous Settlements
- ""Going to Court"" as a Phase of Dispute Resolution
- Conclusion
- Chapter Ten In Place of a Conclusion: Models and Taxonomies
- Court Model versus Bargain Model
- Characterizing ""Islamic Law""
- Epilogue.
- Appendix: Where Did the Court Clients Come from and Why?
- Bibliography
- Index
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