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Continuity and Transformation in Islamic Law

by Ottoman History Podcast

Law is a powerful lens for the study of the Ottoman Empire and the Islamic world. Bringing together diverse sources and new perspectives for legal history, this series explores law in and around the Ottoman Empire as a complex and capacious system underpinning the exercise of power inherent in all human relationships. Our presenters study the law to gain entry into the Ottoman household, exploring the relationships between husbands and wives, masters and slaves. Others use the legal system to understand the logic of the modernizing state, and the competing logics of its citizens, in shaping new forms of governance. Many of these podcasts explore the limits of Ottoman law, both externally at the borders of empire, and internally, at the margins of governable society. The underlying theme of this series is negotiation and compromise: between lawmakers and law-users, between theory and practice, between social body and individual experience. Individually and especially taken together, the

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Episodes

  1. Language, Power, and Law in the Ottoman Empire

    Episode 441 with Heather Ferguson hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, historian Heather Ferguson takes us behind the scenes of early modern Ottoman state-making with a discussion of her recent book The Proper Order of Things. We...

  2. Osmanlı İstanbul'unda Evlilik ve Boşanma

    Bölüm 437 Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik Sunucu Can Gümüş Podcast'i indir Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud Osmanlı'da çiftler nasıl evlenir, nasıl boşanırdı? Bu podcast'te Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik ile İstanbul Bab, Davud Paşa ve Ahi Çelebi mahkemelerinin 1755-1840 yıllarındaki kayıtlarını inceleyerek...

  3. Islamic Law and Arab Diaspora in Southeast Asia

    Episode 430 with Nurfadzilah Yahaya hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud During the 19th century, Southeast Asia came under British and Dutch colonial rule. Yet despite the imposition of foreign institutions and legal codes, Islamic law remained an...

  4. Nationality and Cosmopolitanism in Alexandria

    Episode 345 with Will Hanley hosted by Taylor M. Moore Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud In this episode, Will Hanley transports us to the gritty, stranger-filled streets of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, as we discuss his book, Identifying with Nationality:...

  5. Religious Sentiment and Political Liberties in Colonial South Asia

    with Julie Stephens hosted by Chris Gratien and Tyler Conklin Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud During the 1920s, a publisher in Lahore published a satire on the domestic life of the Prophet Muhammad during a period of religious polemics and communal tension between...

  6. Gendered Politics of Conversion in Early Modern Aleppo

    with Elyse Semerdjian hosted by Chris Gratien Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The changing of one's religion may be viewed today as a matter of personal spirituality or identity, but as the historiography of the Ottoman Empire and elsewhere increasingly shows,...

  7. Capitalism and the Courts in 19th Century Egypt

    with Omar Cheta hosted by Zoe Griffith Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud The Capitulations are regarded as one of the most obvious and humiliating signs of European dominance over Ottoman markets and diplomatic relations in the 19th century, granting European merchants...

  8. The Ottoman Tanzimat in Practice

    with Cengiz Kırlı hosted by Chris Gratien Within Anglophone historiography, the Tanzimat period is conventionally represented as an era of centralizing reforms emanating from the imperial center that represent a trend often labeled as "modernization" or "Westernization." Less attention has been...

  9. Late Hanafi Law in the Ottoman Empire

    with Samy Ayoub hosted by Hadi Hosainy and Christopher Rose Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud Much of the scholarship on the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence, which had its roots in the sociopolitical context of the 8th century Iraq, focuses on the early centuries of...

  10. British-Ottoman Diplomacy and the Making of Maritime Law

    with Michael Talbot & Güneş Işıksel hosted by Arianne Urus and Sam Dolbee Download the episode Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud This podcast explores murky boundaries in two senses. The first has to do with Anglo-Ottoman commerce and diplomacy in the early modern period. Like the more…

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  11. Illicit Sex in Ottoman and French Algeria

    with Aurelie Perrier hosted by Sam Dolbee This episode is part of a series on Women, Gender, and Sex in Ottoman history Download the series Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud The association of Algeria with sex figured prominently in the artwork and literature that was critiqued so famously by...

  12. Yeni Çağ Osmanlı Hukuk Sistemi'nde Kadın Mülkiyet Hakları

    Hadi Hosainy ile 17. yüzyıl İstanbulu'nda kadın mülkiyet hakları üzerine konuştuğumuz bu podcastımızda kadınların hukuki yollara başvurarak nasıl kendilerini koruduklarına ve Osmanlı toplumunun şeri hukukun kadını dezavantajlı bir konuma iten kurallarının nasıl arkasından dolandığına değindik....

  13. Law and Order in Late Ottoman Egypt

    with Khaled Fahmy hosted by Susanna Ferguson Download the podcast Feed | iTunes | GooglePlay | SoundCloud How have the immense transformations of the nineteenth century impacted Egyptian state and society? Our guest Dr. Khaled Fahmy has devoted much of his work to the study of that very question…

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  14. Saharan Jews in French Algeria

    with Sarah Stein hosted by Alma Heckman Crosslisted from tajine The 1870 Crémieux Decree extended French citizenship to most, but not all, of Algeria's Jewish population. The Jews of the M'zab Valley were excluded from this legislation. As Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein explains in this episode,...

  15. Osmanlı Toplumunda Çocukluk

    Yahya Araz This episode is part of a series on Women, Gender, and Sex in Ottoman history Download the series Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud Osmanlı'da çocukluk algısının olup olmadığı son dönem tarih yazıcılığında sıkça sorulan sorular arasındadır. Bu bölümde Yahya Araz bize...

  16. Kocalarını Zehirleyen Osmanlı Kadınları

    Ebru Aykut Tanzimat’in ilanıyla beraber gündelik hayatın pek çok alanına nüfuz etmeyi hedefleyen yasal uygulamalar eczane ve attar dükkanlarının tozlu raflarına kadar ulaşmayı başarmıştı. Bu bölümde Ebru Aykut, Tanzimat sonrası Osmanlısı'nda zehir satışını düzenleyen uygulamalarla kocalarıyla...

  17. Inside Ottoman Prisons

    with Kent Schull hosted by Chris Gratien This episode is part of our series on Islamic law Download the series Podcast Feed | iTunes | Soundcloud 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...

  18. 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…

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  19. Race, Slavery, and Islamic Law in the Early Modern Atlantic

    This episode is part of our series on Islamic law Download the series Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud Notions of racial difference played an important role in the Atlantic slave trade and have left a long legacy well after the slave trade was abolished during the nineteenth century....

  20. 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...

  21. Osmanlı'da Mahremiyetin Sınırları

    Fikret Yılmaz Emrah Safa Gürkan'ın sunuculuğuyla Download the series Podcast Feed | iTunes | Hipcast | Soundcloud Osmanlı'da kamusal alan ile özel yaşam arasındaki sınır nasıl çizilmiştir? Herkesin birbirinin muhbiri olduğu bir toplumda iktidar, toplum ve birey arasındaki ilişki nasıl...

  22. "Kadı"nın Günlüğü

    Selim Karahasanoğlu Sadreddinzade günlüğünden örnek sayfalar Kaynak: BOA, KK 7500, 158-159 Osmanlı tarihyazımında cevabı aranan önemli bir soru da Osmanlı kültüründe günlük, anı, hatırat gibi ben anlatılarının bulunup bulunmadığıdır. Bu bölümümüzde Selim Karahasanoğlu ile son çalışması...

  23. 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…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Law is a powerful lens for the study of the Ottoman Empire and the Islamic world. Bringing together diverse sources and new perspectives for legal history, this series explores law in and around the Ottoman Empire as a complex and capacious system underpinning the exercise of power inherent in all human relationships. Our presenters study the law to gain entry into the Ottoman household, exploring the relationships between husbands and wives, masters and slaves. Others use the legal system to understand the logic of the modernizing state, and the competing logics of its citizens, in shaping new forms of governance. Many of these podcasts explore the limits of Ottoman law, both externally at the borders of empire, and internally, at the margins of governable society. The underlying theme of this series is negotiation and compromise: between lawmakers and law-users, between theory and practice, between social body and individual experience. Individually and especially taken together, the

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