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dc.contributor.authorPeirce, Leslie-
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-22T08:44:43Z-
dc.date.available2019-02-22T08:44:43Z-
dc.date.issued2003-
dc.identifier.isbn0-520-22890-1-
dc.identifier.urihttp://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/46828-
dc.descriptionThis book is about one year in the life of a provincial court. It follows the people of Aintab and its hinterland as they used their court to solve social problems and also as they were called to account by legal authorities for breaking the law. While the book takes an interest in the Ottoman legal system as a whole and in the laws that it enforced, it is primarily an attempt to understand the culture of a local court: that is, the nature of dispute resolution that occurred within it and its vision of social justice. Legal codes— Islamic sharia and Ottoman imperial law—were of course critical in shaping the legal life of communities like Aintab, but it was only in local interpretation that formal rules acquired vitality and meaning. The chapters that follow argue that it was the people of Aintab who, negotiating with and through the court, were responsible for much of that interpretation. Even during the year studied here, when the Aintab court was increasingly drawn into the Ottoman empire’s expanding legal system, local individuals used the court to create a dialogue with the ruling regime over mutual rights and obligations.-
dc.languageenen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of California Pressen_US
dc.subjectWomen—Legal status, laws, etcen_US
dc.titleMorality Tales Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintaben_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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