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

Author
Gerber, Haim [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994.
Description
v, 233 p. ; 24 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-226) and index.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • 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.
ISBN
  • 0791418774 (alk.)
  • 0791418782 (pbk. : alk.)
LCCN
^^^93008076^
OCLC
28064676
RCP
H - S
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