Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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 Dīvān-i Hümāyūn and the Dīvān al-cAlī
- 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 of Cairo in the eighteenth century
- Glossary
- Sources and works cited
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 April 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 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 Dīvān-i Hümāyūn and the Dīvān al-cAlī
- 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 of Cairo in the eighteenth century
- Glossary
- Sources and works cited
- Index
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- Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo , pp. 159 - 202Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2017