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Oppression and Salvation : Annotated Legal Documents from the Ottoman Book of Complaints of 1675 / Haim Gerber.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker ; 27Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (188 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783879974726
  • 9783112209400
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgement -- A note on transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I: Background Studies -- Chapter 1: Law and Order -- Chapter 2: The Rise of Ottoman Scholars (ulema) -- Chapter 3: State, Bureaucrats, and Scholars: the Evidence of the Book of Complaints -- Part II: The Şikayet Defteri: The Documents -- Chapter 4: Oppression and Brigandage -- Chapter 5: The Kadi and the Common People -- Chapter 6: (In)justice by State Officials -- Chapter 7: Complaints Against Kadis and Naibs (Assistant Judges) -- Chapter 8: Shari’a Court Decisions—Final? -- Chapter 9: The Agent (mübaşir) -- Chapter 10: The Role of the Divan in the Legal Process -- Chapter 11: Miscellaneous -- Glossary -- Bibliography
Summary: The pheno­menon of comp­laints was a central tenet in the ideo­logy of the Ottoman Empire, an obses­sion it inhe­rited from former Middle Eastern empires, Islamic and pre-Islamic. Atten­tion was directed in parti­cular to the tendency of state offi­cials to over­step the bounds of their autho­rity, exploi­ting vast areas of the coun­try­side to enrich them­selves at the expense of the poor citi­zens and, as a conse­qu­ence, to under­mine the legiti­macy of the ruler himself. On the other hand, so many comp­laints of harsh abuses might give the impres­sion that the Ottoman Empire in its enti­rety should have collapsed as a conse­qu­ence. In the first place, the Şikayet Defteri is a legal docu­ment because many of the comp­laints stem from the point of depar­ture that a certain Shari’a law has been broken, viola­ting the natural rights of certain groups of citi­zens. More important than this, however, the Şikayet is a legal docu­ment from an addi­tional, metho­do­lo­gical perspec­tive: the docu­ment provides a perspec­tive on the Kadi, his court, and his posi­tion in the state, which are unli­kely to be obtained from any other source. Parti­cu­larly, such infor­ma­tion cannot be had from the Kadi record (sicill) itself, as this source only looks at itself from the inside, solving day-to-day prob­lems.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgement -- A note on transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I: Background Studies -- Chapter 1: Law and Order -- Chapter 2: The Rise of Ottoman Scholars (ulema) -- Chapter 3: State, Bureaucrats, and Scholars: the Evidence of the Book of Complaints -- Part II: The Şikayet Defteri: The Documents -- Chapter 4: Oppression and Brigandage -- Chapter 5: The Kadi and the Common People -- Chapter 6: (In)justice by State Officials -- Chapter 7: Complaints Against Kadis and Naibs (Assistant Judges) -- Chapter 8: Shari’a Court Decisions—Final? -- Chapter 9: The Agent (mübaşir) -- Chapter 10: The Role of the Divan in the Legal Process -- Chapter 11: Miscellaneous -- Glossary -- Bibliography

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The pheno­menon of comp­laints was a central tenet in the ideo­logy of the Ottoman Empire, an obses­sion it inhe­rited from former Middle Eastern empires, Islamic and pre-Islamic. Atten­tion was directed in parti­cular to the tendency of state offi­cials to over­step the bounds of their autho­rity, exploi­ting vast areas of the coun­try­side to enrich them­selves at the expense of the poor citi­zens and, as a conse­qu­ence, to under­mine the legiti­macy of the ruler himself. On the other hand, so many comp­laints of harsh abuses might give the impres­sion that the Ottoman Empire in its enti­rety should have collapsed as a conse­qu­ence. In the first place, the Şikayet Defteri is a legal docu­ment because many of the comp­laints stem from the point of depar­ture that a certain Shari’a law has been broken, viola­ting the natural rights of certain groups of citi­zens. More important than this, however, the Şikayet is a legal docu­ment from an addi­tional, metho­do­lo­gical perspec­tive: the docu­ment provides a perspec­tive on the Kadi, his court, and his posi­tion in the state, which are unli­kely to be obtained from any other source. Parti­cu­larly, such infor­ma­tion cannot be had from the Kadi record (sicill) itself, as this source only looks at itself from the inside, solving day-to-day prob­lems.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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