Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo / / James Baldwin.
A study of Islamic law and political power in the Ottoman Empire's richest provincial cityWhat did Islamic law mean in the early modern period, a world of great Muslim empires? Often portrayed as the quintessential jurists' law, to a large extent it was developed by scholars outside the pu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 4 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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 Dīvān-i Hümāyūn and the Dīwān al-ʿĀlī
- 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 of Cairo in the eighteenth century
- Glossary
- Sources and works cited
- Index