Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: Harmonization, Property Rights and Sovereignty...

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Malissa Taylor (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Harmonization, Property Rights and Sovereignty

Malissa Taylor (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

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English

I.B. Tauris
19 October 2023

Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Islamic studies

Series: The Ottoman Empire and the World

Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its “classical” articulation in the sixteenth century to its reformulation in the 1858 Land Code. The book demonstrates that well before the nineteenth century the tradition of Ottoman land tenure law had developed an indigenous form of property right that would remain intact in the Land Code. In addition, the rising consensus of the jurists that the sultan was the source of the land law paved the way for the wider legislative authority that the Ottoman state would increasingly assert in the Tanzimat period of reform. Demonstrating the profound and ongoing adaptation of a legal tradition that was at once both Ottoman and Islamic, it revises our understanding of the relationship between the modern Islamic world and its early modern past, and what kind of intervention was represented by reform in the 19th century.

By: Malissa Taylor (University of Massachusetts Amherst USA)
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780755647682
ISBN 10: 0755647688
Series: The Ottoman Empire and the World
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 19 October 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Malissa Taylor is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Her published articles have appeared in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient and The Journal of Ottoman Studies.

Reviews for Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: Harmonization, Property Rights and Sovereignty

A mind-blowing and innovative study of the supposedly dry subject of Ottoman land law, gracefully written and designed to overturn all your stereotypes of Islamic law, sultanic power, and Ottoman decline. Taylor is to be congratulated on her deeply original take on obscure but vitally important aspects of imperial legal modernization. * Linda T. Darling, Professor, University of Arizona, USA * This book shows how three centuries of legislation and legal interpretation, instead of a European model, underlay the Ottoman land code of 1858. Deeply researched and cogently argued, it upends much that we thought we knew about Ottoman history from the age of Süleyman to the Tanzimat era. * Kenneth M. Cuno, Professor, University of Illinois, USA *