The Economics of Ottoman Justice: Settlement and Trial in the Sharia Courts (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781316610275)

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Ottoman Empire endured long periods of warfare, facing intense financial pressures and new international mercantile and monetary trends. The Empire also experienced major political-administrative restructuring and socioeconomic transformations. In the context of this tumultuous change, The Economics of Ottoman Justice examines Ottoman legal practices and the sharia court's operations to reflect on the judicial system and provincial relationships. Metin Coşgel and Boğa Ergene provide a systematic depiction of socio-legal interactions, identifying how different social, economic, gender and religious groups used the court, how they settled their disputes, and which factors contributed to their success at trial. Using an economic approach, Coşgel and Ergene offer rare insights into the role of power differences in judicial interactions, and into the reproduction of communal hierarchies in court, and demonstrate how court use patterns changed over time.

Author: Metin Coşgel, Boğaç Ergene
ISBN-10: 1316610276
ISBN-13: 9781316610275
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/29/2018
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d