Sacred Law in the Holy City : : The Khedival Challenge to the Ottomans as seen from Jerusalem, 1829-1841 / / Judith Mendelsohn Rood.

• Superior document: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage ; 32
• VerfasserIn: Rood, Judith Mendelsohn,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL, , 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage ; 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1993.
• Other title: The Khedival Challenge to the Ottomans as seen from Jerusalem, 1829-1841
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 904740520X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Judith Mendelsohn Rood.

The Muslim community's political and socio-economic role in Jerusalem under Ottoman administration during the 1830s is analyzed in this volume from a natural law perspective. A bitter political contest between Sultan Mahmud II and Muhammad Ali Pasha resulted in the military occupation of Syria and imposition of a brutal new political and legal regime which crushed the indigenous elites of southern Syria. Through a careful analysis of the archives of the Islamic law court of Jerusalem, the study offers a fresh appraisal of how the Ottoman Empire ruled Jerusalem and considers the Muslim response, elucidating the reasons for the breakdown of their relations with non-Muslim Ottoman subjects and differentiating the Ottoman understanding of law and government from that of their enemies, the Wahhabis.