State, society, and law in Islam : Ottoman law in comparative perspective /

Gerber, Haim,

State, society, and law in Islam : Ottoman law in comparative perspective / [print] Haim Gerber. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)1994. - v, 233 pages ; 24 cm.



1. The Structure of the Ottoman Legal Process in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 2. The Making of Ottoman Law: The Rise of the Kadi and the Sharia Court -- 3. The Fetva in the Legal System -- 4. The Guilds and Customary Law -- 5. Patrimonialism and Bureaucracy in the Ottoman Political System -- 6. Summary and Conclusion.



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Justice, Administration of--History.--Turkey
Islamic law--History.--Turkey
Islam--History.--Turkey

KKX1572.G362.S738 1994