Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo

ISBN-13: 9781474432139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str.

James E. (Lecturer in Empires of the Early Modern Muslim Wor

Opis

James E. Baldwin examines how the interplay of these two conceptions of Islamic law religious scholarship and royal justice undergirded legal practice in Cairo, the largest and richest city in the Ottoman provinces.

Spis treści

Abbreviations; Abbreviations; Note on transliteration and dates; Introduction; 1. A Brief Portrait of Cairo under Ottoman Rule; 2. Cairo’s Legal System: Institutions and Actors; 3. Royal Justice: The D?v?n-i Hüm?y?n and the D?w?n al-??l?; 4. Government Authority, the Interpretation of Fiqh, and the Production of Applied Law; 5. The Privatization of Justice: Dispute Resolution as a Domain of Political Competition; 6. A Culture of Disputing: How Did Cairenes Use the Legal System?; Conclusion: Ottoman Cairo’s legal system and grand narratives; Appendix: Examples of Documents Used in this Study; Notes; Map: Cairo in the Eighteenth Century; Glossary; Sources and Works Cited; Index.