TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerber,Haim
TI  - Oppression and Salvation: Annotated Legal Documents from the Ottoman Book of Complaints of 1675 
T2  - Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker
SN  - 9783879974726
U1  - 340 
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112209400
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783112209400
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