Law and legality in the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey / edited by Kent F. Schull, M. Safa Saracoglu, and Robert Zens.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Kent F. Schull and M. Safa Sarac̦ogl̆u -- Reaching the flocks : literacy and the mass reception of Ottoman Law in the Sixteenth-century Arab World / Timothy J. Fitzgerald -- Ottoman legal practice and non-judicial actors in Seventeenth-century Istanbul / Hadi Hosainy -- Defining village boundaries at the time of the introduction of the Malikane system : the struffle of the Ottoman State for reaffirming ownership of the land / Michael Nizri -- Economic interventionism, Islamic law and provincial government in the Ottoman empire / M. Safa Sarac̦ogl̆u -- Reorganization of the Sharia courts of Egypt : how legal modernization set back women's rights in the Nineteenth century / Kenneth M. Cuno -- Regulating land rights in late Nineteenth-century salt : the limits of legal pluralism in Ottoman Property Law / Nora Barakat -- The Mecelle, Sharia, and the Ottoman State : fashioning and refashioning of Islamic Law in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries / Samy Ayoub -- Criminal codes, crime and the transformation of punishment in the Late Ottoman Empire / Kent F. Schull -- Refugees, locals and "The" State : property compensation in the Province of Izmir following the Greco-Turkish population exchange of 1923 / Ellinor Morack.