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Book Reviews / Islamic Law and Society 16 (2009) 409-424 413 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/092893809X12529989425510 stanbul Mahkemesi 121 Numaralı Şerʿiyye Sicili Tarih: 1231-1232/1816-1817 . Edited by Nejdet Ertuğ; Text prepared by Şevki Nezihi Aykut. İstanbul: Sabancı Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2006. Pp. 282, 1 CD. ISBN 975-8362-33-x. YTL 60. Beginning from the 15 th century, thousands of registers compiled during the Ottoman period document the activities of Muslim judges in the various provinces of the empire. Included among their contents are judicial decisions regarding property transactions, personal debts, marriage contracts and divorce procedures, commercial and criminal cases, local market prices, guild management, and tax payments, together with copies of imperial orders ( firman s), estate inventories and inheritance distributions, and so on through the minutiae of daily life. e Ottoman Muslim judge acted as adjudicator, arbitrater, notary, and occasionally mouthpiece of the imperial government, while his scribes duly recorded the proceedings transacted in his presence. It may have been the case that registers of judicial decisions, kadı sicilleri ( sijillat al-qadi ), were compiled in Muslim states prior to the rise of the Ottoman empire. Mamluk sources suggest that such registers were compiled in earlier times,
Islamic Law and Society – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2009
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