Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo 1st Edition by James E Baldwin ISBN 1474403093 9781474403092
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ISBN 10: 1474403093
ISBN 13: 9781474403092
Author: James E. Baldwin
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.
- Offers a new interpretation of the relationship between Islamic law and political power
- Presents law as the key nexus connecting Egypt with the imperial capital Istanbul during the period of Ottoman decentralization
- Studies judicial institutions such as the governor’s Diwan and the imperial council that have received little attention in previous scholarship
- Integrates the study of legal records with an analysis of how legal practice was represented in contemporary chronicles
- Provides transcriptions and translations of a range of Ottoman legal documents
Table of contents:
1 A Brief Portrait of Cairo under Ottoman Rule
2 Cairo’s Legal System: Institutions and Actors
3 Royal Justice: The Dīvān-i Hümāyūn and the Dīwān al-ʿĀlī
4 Government Authority, the Interpretation of Fiqh, and the Production of Applied Law
5 The Privatization of Justice: Dispute Resolution as a Domain of Political Competition
6 A Culture of Disputing: How Did Cairenes Use the Legal System?
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