Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo

James E. Baldwin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2016
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-0309-2 (ISBN)

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What 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 purview of the state. However, for the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, justice was the ultimate duty of the monarch, and Islamic law was a tool of legitimation and governance. James E. Baldwin examines how the interplay of these two conceptions of Islamic law – religious scholarship and royal justice – undergirded legal practice in Cairo, the largest and richest city in the Ottoman provinces. Through detailed studies of the various formal and informal dispute resolution institutions and practices that formed the fabric of law in Ottoman Cairo, his book contributes to key questions concerning the relationship between the shari‘a and political power, the plurality of Islamic legal practice, and the nature of centre-periphery relations in the Ottoman Empire.

James E. Baldwin is Lecturer in Empires of the Early Modern Muslim World at Royal Holloway, University of London.

AbbreviationsAbbreviationsNote on transliteration and datesIntroduction1. A Brief Portrait of Cairo under Ottoman Rule2. Cairo’s Legal System: Institutions and Actors3. Royal Justice: The Dīvān-i Hümāyūn and the Dīwān al-ʿĀlī4. Government Authority, the Interpretation of Fiqh, and the Production of Applied Law5. The Privatization of Justice: Dispute Resolution as a Domain of Political Competition6. A Culture of Disputing: How Did Cairenes Use the Legal System?Conclusion: Ottoman Cairo’s legal system and grand narrativesAppendix: Examples of Documents Used in this StudyNotesMap: Cairo in the Eighteenth CenturyGlossarySources and Works CitedIndex

Zusatzinfo	4 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	524 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-4744-0309-3 / 1474403093
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-0309-2 / 9781474403092
Zustand	Neuware