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WOMEN IN EARLY 17TH CENTURY OTTOMAN JUDICIAL RECORDS - THE SHARIA COURT OF ANATOLIAN KAYSERI*) BY RONALD C. JENNINGS (University of Illinois) Women have generally been considered by modern western observers to occupy a despised and servile position in the social and economic order of Islamic civilization. Arabists and anthropologists have been in accord that Muslim women were virtually the property first of their *) Kayseri sicils are housed in the Etnografya Muzesi in Ankara, the Karaman, Isparta, and Konya sicils are in the Mevlana Muzesi in Konya, the Amasya sicils in the museum of Tokat, and the Trabzon sicils in the Topkapi Saray Muzesi Arsivi in Istanbul. I wish to thank the directors and their staffs for generous hospitality; I am particularly obligated to the staff of the Etnografya Muzesi, including the director Bayan Enise Yener and the recently retired assistant director Bay Ziya Ceran. This research was supported by grants from the American Research Institute in Turkey and from the University of California at Los Angeles (an NDEA title IV grant). This paper is built upon a chapter from my Ph. D. dissertation in Islamic Studies at UCLA, "The Judicial Registers ( $er'i Mahkeme Sicilleri) of
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1975
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