Continuity and Transformation in Islamic Law

Continuity and Transformation in Islamic Law

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  • Inside Ottoman Prisons
    with Kent Schull

    hosted by Chris Gratien

    This episode is part of our series on Islamic law

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    While humans have devised no shortage of ways to punish each other throughout history, the rise of the prison and incarceration as a method for dealing with crime is primarily a nineteenth century phenomenon. In this episode, Kent Schull discusses his recent book about the development of the Ottoman prison system and explores the lives of Ottoman prisoners.

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    Kent Schull is Associate Professor of History at State University of New York, Binghamton. (see academia.edu)
    Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. (see academia.edu)

    Episode No. 158
    Release date: 7 June 2014
    Location: German Orient Institut, Istanbul
    Editing and production by Chris Gratien
    Bibliography courtesy of Kent Schull

    Erzurum: the prison and prisoners
    (Source: Keghuni, No. 1-10, 1903,
     2nd year, Venice, St Lazzaro) from
    houshamadyan.org
    SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Schull, Kent F. Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity. 2014.

    Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.

    Adams, Bruce F. The Politics of Punishment: Prison Reform in Russia, 1863-1917 (DeKalb,
    Ill: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996).

    Ignatieff, Michael. A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary and the Industrial Revolution,
    1750-1850 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1978).

    Maksudyan, Nazan, ‘Orphans, Cities, and the State: Vocational Orphanages (ıslahhanes) and
    Reform in the Late Ottoman Urban Space’, IJMES 43 (2011), pp. 493-511.

    Peters, Rudolph. Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

    Yıldız, Gültekin. Mapusane: Osmanlı Hapishanelerinin Kuruluș Serüveni, 1839-1908 (İstanbul: Kitabevi, 2012).

    Abrahamian, Ervand. Tortured Confessions Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
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  • Galata and the Capitulations
    with Fariba Zarinebaf

    hosted by Nir Shafir and Zoe Griffith

    The capitulations, a series of bilateral agreements with European states and merchants, are sometimes held up as symbols of early Ottoman concessions to European powers and the beginnings of Ottoman economic decline. This misreading, which is in part the product of a misinterpretation of the word "capitulation" itself, impedes a proper understanding of Ottoman Empire and the legal context of the early modern Mediterranean. In this episode, Fariba Zarinebaf offers a different look at the capitulations or ahdnames within the broader context of law and diplomacy in Ottoman Galata and other port cities.

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    Fariba Zarinebaf is an Associate Professor of History at University of California-Riverside. (see faculty page)
    Nir Shafir is a doctoral candidate at UCLA studying Ottoman intellectual history. (see academia.edu)
    Zoe Griffith is a doctoral candidate at Brown University studying the early modern Mediterranean. (see academia.edu)

    Episode No. 144
    Release date: 8 February 2014
    Editing and production by Chris Gratien

    Citation: "Galata, Ottoman Ports, and the Capitulations," Fariba Zarinebaf, Nir Shafir, and Zoe Griffith, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 144 (8 Feburary 2014) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2014/02/ottoman-empire-capitulations.html.
    Griffith is a doctoral candidate at Brown University studying the early
    modern Mediterranean - See more at:
    http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2011/11/ottoman-lebanon-property.html#sthash.qU9EtwKA.dpuf
    Zoe
    Griffith is a doctoral candidate at Brown University studying the early
    modern Mediterranean - See more at:
    http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2011/11/ottoman-lebanon-property.html#sthash.qU9EtwKA.dpuf
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  • Mulberry Fields Forever
    with Zoe Griffith

    hosted by Chris Gratien and Kalliopi Amygdalou

    Inheritance and the transfer of property across generations connects the history of families to a broader analysis of political economy, particularly in societies where wealth and capital are deeply rooted in the earth. In this episode, Zoe Griffith provides a framework for the study of family history through the lens of the mulberry tree and its produce in a study of Ottoman court records from Tripoli (modern-day Lebanon).

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    Zoe Griffith is a doctoral candidate at Brown University studying the early modern Mediterranean (see academia.edu)
    Chris Gratien is a doctoral candidate at Georgetown University researching the social and environmental history of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East. (see academia.edu)
    Kalliopi Amygdalou is a doctoral candidate in the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College in London working on the relationship between national historiographies and the built environment in Greece and Turkey (see academia.edu)


    Episode No. 130
    Release date: 18 November 2013
    Location: Kurtuluş, Istanbul
    Editing and Production by Chris Gratien
    Bibliography courtesy of Zoe Griffith

    Citation: "Mulberry Fields Forever: Family, Property, and Inheritance in Ottoman Lebanon," Zoe Griffith, Chris Gratien, and Kalliopi Amygdalou, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 130 (November 18, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2011/11/ottoman-lebanon-property.html.

    BIBLIOGRAPHY


    Abu Husayn, Abdul Rahim. Provincial Leaderships in Syria, 1575-1650. Beirut: American University in Beirut, 1985.

    Cuno, Kenneth. The Pasha’s Peasants: land, society and economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

    Doumani, Beshara. “Introduction.” In Beshara Doumani, ed. Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003: 1-19.

    --- “Adjudicating Family: The Islamic Court and Disputes between Kin in Greater Syria, 1700-1860.” In Beshara Doumani, Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003: 173-200.

    Ergene, Boğaç. Local Court, Provincial Society, and Justice in the Ottoman Empire: legal practice and dispute resolution in Çankırı and Kastamonu (1652-1744). Leiden: Brill, 2003.

    Fay, Mary Ann. “Women and Waqf: toward a reconsideration of women’s place in the Mamluk household.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 29 (1997): 33-51.

    Ferguson, Heather. “Property, Language, and Law: Conventions of Social Discourse in Seventeenth-Century Tarablus al-Sham.” In Beshara Doumani, ed. Family History in the Middle East: Household, Property, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003: 229-244.

    ‘Imad, ‘Abd al-Ghani. Mujtama’ Trablus fi zaman al-tahawwulat al-‘uthmaniya. Tripoli, Lebanon: Dar al-Insha’ lil’Sihafah wa’l-Tiba’ah wa’l-Nashr, 2002.

    Imber, Colin. “The Status of Orchards and Fruit Trees in Ottoman Law.” Tarih Enstitüsü Dergisi, 12 (1981-82): 763-774.

    Mundy, Martha and Richard Saumarez-Smith. Governing Property, Making the Modern State: law, administration, and production in Ottoman Syria. London: I.B. Taurus, 2007.

    Tezcan, Baki. The Second Ottoman Empire: political and social transformations in the early modern world. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

    Music: Wadi al-Safi - Ya al-Tut al-Shami
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  • Osmanlı'da Mahremiyetin Sınırları
    Fikret Yılmaz 

    Emrah Safa Gürkan'ın sunuculuğuyla

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    Osmanlı'da kamusal alan ile özel yaşam arasındaki sınır nasıl çizilmiştir? Herkesin birbirinin muhbiri olduğu bir toplumda iktidar, toplum ve birey arasındaki ilişki nasıl düzenlenmiştir? Bu sorulara yanıt aradığımız bu podcastımızda Fikret Yılmaz ile erken modern Osmanlı toplumunda mahremiyetin sınırları üzerine konuştuk. Ayrıca, Osmanlı toplum tarihçiliğinin sıkıntılarına dikkat çekerek, kavramsal çalışmaların gerekliliğine dikkat çektik.

    Where did the boundary between the public and private spheres lie in the Ottoman Empire? How was the relationship between government, society and individual configured in a society where everyone spied on their neighbors? In search of answers to these questions, this episode of Ottoman History Podcast explores the boundaries of privacy in early modern Ottoman society with Dr. Fikret Yılmaz, drawing attention to the lacuna in historiography on Ottoman society and the need for conceptual studies. (podcast is in Turkish)

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    Erken modern Osmanlı toplum tarihi üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Fikret Yılmaz Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır. (see academia.edu)
    Yeniçağ Akdeniz ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu üzerine uzmanlaşan Dr. Emrah Safa Gürkan İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi'nde öğretim üyeliği yapmaktadır. (see academia.edu)

    Episode No. 129
    Release date: 9 November 2013
    Location: Kuzguncuk, Üsküdar
    Editing and production by Chris Gratien
    Bibliography courtesy of Fikret Yılmaz

    Citation: "Osmanlı'da Mahremiyetin Sınırları," Fikret Yılmaz, Emrah Safa Gürkan, and Chris Gratien, Ottoman History Podcast, No. 129 (November 9, 2013) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2013/11/private-public-sphere-ottoman-empire.html.

    SEÇME KAYNAKÇA

    Fikret Yılmaz, "Zina ve Fuhuş Arasında Kalanlar: Fahişe Subaşıya Karşı,” Toplumsal Tarih 220 (April 2012): 22-31.

    Fikret Yılmaz, “Boş Vaktiniz Var Mı? veya 16. yüzyılda Anadolu’da şarap, eğlence ve suç,” Tarih ve Toplum: Yeni Yaklaşımlar 1 (Bahar 2005): 11-49.

    Fikret Yılmaz, “16. yüzyılda tarımsal yapılarda değişim, Akdeniz mutfağı ve yağ kullanımı,” Tarih ve Toplum: Yeni Yaklaşımlar 10 (Bahar 2010): 23-42.

    Fikret Yılmaz, “XVI. Yüzyıl Osmanlı toplumunda mahremiyetin sınırlarına dair,” Toplum ve Bilim 83 (Kış 1999-2000): 92-110.

    Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou: Village occitain de 1294 à 1324 (Paris: Gallimard, 1975).
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  • Pastoral Nomads and Legal Pluralism in Ottoman Jordan
    with Nora Barakat

    Groups variously labeled as nomadic and tribal formed an integral part of Ottoman society, but because their communities exercised a wide degree of autonomy, they are often represented as somehow separate or "other" to urban and settled populations. However, the social history of these communities reveals that tribes and their members were involved in the continual transformation of Ottoman society not just as a force of resistance or hapless victims of state policies but also as participants. In this podcast, Nora Barakat deals with the social history of such communities, which appear in the court records of Salt (in modern Jordan) as "tent-dwellers," and their place in the complex legal sphere of the Tanzimat era during which both shar`ia law courts as well as new nizamiye courts served as forums for legal action.

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    Nora Barakat is a PhD candidate at UC-Berkeley studying the legal and social history of Ottoman Syria
    Chris Gratien is a PhD candidate studying the history of the modern Middle East at Georgetown University (see academia.edu)

    Citation: "Pastoral Nomads and Legal Pluralism in Ottoman Jordan." Nora Barakat and Chris Gratien. Ottoman History Podcast, No. 61 (July 24, 2012) http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2012/07/pastoral-nomads-and-legal-pluralism-in.html.

    SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Agmon, Iris. Family & court: legal culture and modernity in late Ottoman Palestine. Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2006.
    Kasaba, Reşat. A moveable empire : Ottoman nomads, migrants, and refugees. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009.
    Mundy, Martha, and Richard Saumarez Smith. Governing Property: Making the Modern State Law Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.
    Rogan, Eugene L. Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
    Rubin, Avi. Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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