ON OTTOMAN JUSTICE: INTERPRETATIONS IN CONFLICT (1600 - 1800)

Abstract This essay investigates the ways in which the notion of "justice" was utilized as a mechanism of political legitimization in the early-modern Ottoman Empire. I claim that there existed alternative definitions of justice and that these were instrumental in the struggle between the...

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Main Author: Ergene, Bogaç (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2001
In: Islamic law and society
Year: 2001, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-87
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