(Source: Oxford University Press)
Oxford
University Press has just published the paperback edition of a book on Islamic
law in Ottoman Cairo.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James E. Baldwin
is Lecturer in Empires of the Early Modern Muslim World at Royal Holloway,
University of London.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abbreviations
Abbreviations
Note on
transliteration and dates
Introduction
1. A Brief
Portrait of Cairo under Ottoman Rule
2. Cairo's Legal
System: Institutions and Actors
3. Royal
Justice: The Divan-i Hümayun and the Diwan al-Ali
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?
Conclusion:
Ottoman Cairo's legal system and grand narratives
Appendix:
Examples of Documents Used in this Study
Notes
Map: Cairo in
the Eighteenth Century
Glossary
Sources and
Works Cited
Index
More information
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