Economics of Ottoman Justice - Settlement and Trial in the Sharia Courts

A systematic analysis of legal practice in a sharia court in the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Methodology and Background: 1. Quantitative approaches in research on Ottoman legal practice; 2. Kastamonu: the town and its people; Part II. The Court and Court Clients: 3. The court, its actors, and its archive; 4. Court use: a preliminary analysis; Part III. To Settle or Not to Settle: 5. Dispute resolution in Ottoman courts of law; 6. Trial vs settlement: an economic approach; 7. Which disputes went to trial? Case-type- and period-based analyses; Part IV. Litigations: 8. Rules and tools of litigation; 9. Economics of litigation: what affects success at trial?; 10. Who won? Case-type- and period-based analyses; Conclusion.

About the author

Metin Coşgel is Professor of Economics and Department Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Connecticut. He has published widely on the Ottoman Empire.Boğaç Ergene is Associate Professor of History at the University of Vermont. He is the author of Local Court, Provincial Society and Justice in the Ottoman Empire (2003).

Summary

By offering both an economic and legal analysis of legal practice in a sharia court in the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book highlights how different gender, religious, and socioeconomic groups participated in legal practice and interacted with other groups.

Product details

• Authors: Metin Co Gel, Co&, Metin Co&351;gel, Metin Co?Gel, Metin Coosgel, Metin (University of Connecticut) Cosgel, Metin (University of Connecticut) Ergene Cosgel, Metin Ergene Cosgel, Metin Coşgel, Bo Ac Ergene, Bo& Ergene, Bo&aç Ergene, Boğaç Ergene
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2016
• EAN: 9781107157637
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15763-7
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Ottoman Empire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Economic history, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology