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The Economics of Ottoman Justice

Settlement and Trial in the Sharia Courts

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 720g
• ISBN-13: 9781107157637
• ISBN-10: 1107157633
• Artikelnr.: 47086267

Autorenporträt

Metin Cögel 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.