The subjects of Ottoman international law / edited by Lâle Can, Michael Christopher Low, Kent F. Schull, and Robert Zens

• HerausgeberIn: Can, Lâle; Low, Michael Christopher; Schull, Kent F.; Zens, Robert W.
• Place / Publishing House: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Ressource
• Notes: 2106

"The core of this edited volume originates from a special issue of the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (JOTSA) that goes well beyond the special issue to incorporate the stimulating discussions and insights of two Middle East Studies Association conference roundtables and the important work of additional scholars in order to create a state-of-the-field volume on Ottoman sociolegal studies, particularly regarding Ottoman international law from the eighteenth century to the end of the empire. It makes several important contributions to Ottoman and Turkish studies, namely, by introducing these disciplines to the broader fields of trans-imperial studies, comparative international law, and legal history. Combining the best practices of diplomatic history and history from below to integrate the Ottoman Empire and its subjects into the broader debates of the nineteenth-century trans-imperial history this unique volume represents the exciting work and cutting-edge scholarship on these topics that will continue to shape the field in years to come"--

Table of Contents

Introduction : the subjects of Ottoman International Law / Lâle Can and Michael Christopher Low -- Freeing "the enslaved people of Islam" : the changing meaning of Ottoman subjecthood for captives in the Russian Empire / Will Smiley, University of New Hampshire -- The well-defended domains : eurocentric international law and the making of the Ottoman Office of Legal Counsel / Aimee Genell, University of West Georgia -- What Ottoman nationality was and was not / Will Hanley, Florida State University -- Unfurling the flag of extraterritoriality : autonomy, foreign Muslims, and the capitulations in the Ottoman Hijaz / Michael Christopher Low, Iowa State University -- The protection question : Central Asians and extraterritoriality in the late Ottoman Empire / Lâle Can, The City College of New York City, City University of New York -- An uncertain inheritance : the imperial travels of legal migrants, from British India to Ottoman Iraq / Julia Stephens, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey -- The Anglo-Ottoman Cold War (1880-1914) : competing visions of Muslim mobility and imperial citizenship from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Indo-Afghan borderlands / Faiz Ahmed, Brown University -- Pan-Islamic propagandists or professional diplomats? : the Ottoman consular establishment in the colonial Indian Ocean / Jeffery Dyer, Boston College -- Travel documents, mobility control, and the Ottoman state in an age of global migration, 1880-1915 / David Gutman, Manhattanville College -- Claimed by Turkey as subjects : a history of Ottoman nationality in the United States and the Syrian exemption, 1915-1924 / Stacy D. Fahrenthold, University of California, Davis