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James Baldwin (2012)
Petitioning the Sultan in Ottoman EgyptBulletin of The School of Oriental and African Studies-university of London, 75
Guy Burak (2013)
The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Post-Mongol Context of the Ottoman Adoption of a School of LawComparative Studies in Society and History, 55
Samy Ayoub (2016)
“The Sulṭān Says”: State Authority in the Late Ḥanafī TraditionIslamic Law and Society, 23
It is commonly held that the settlement of disputes in Muslim-majority areas depended on “judges” and “arbitrators” who settled disputes independently or facilitated reconciliation by means of mediation, either judicial or extra-judicial. In the resulting narrative, the state occupies only a marginal place, at best. In this essay, we contend that this narrative creates an artificial opposition between the Islamic state and sharīʿa, an opposition predicated on the reified notion of Islamic law as the exclusive preserve of Muslim legists (ʿulamāʾ), that is, a self-contained jurisprudence inaccessible to the uninitiated and to state officials. Materials from modern Khorezm call into question the application of this binary interpretive model and shed light on an Islamic juridical field in which Muslims brought their affairs to state officials because they had the power to coerce parties to achieve a settlement and enforce a decision, either formal or informal.
Islamic Law and Society – Brill
Published: Mar 8, 2017
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