Podcasts by Continuity and Transformation in Islamic Law
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, these podcasts take us far beyond the normative strictures of Shari’a to understand the role of law in diverse societies in the Ottoman Empire and beyond.
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Language, Power, and Law in the Ottoman Empire from 2019-12-12T22:19
Osmanlı İstanbul'unda Evlilik ve Boşanma from 2019-11-29T23:16
Islamic Law and Arab Diaspora in Southeast Asia from 2019-10-08T20:28
Nationality and Cosmopolitanism in Alexandria from 2018-02-09T00:51
Religious Sentiment and Political Liberties in Colonial South Asia from 2016-09-06T21:25
Gendered Politics of Conversion in Early Modern Aleppo from 2016-09-04T20:16
Capitalism and the Courts in 19th Century Egypt from 2016-08-31T22:14
The Ottoman Tanzimat in Practice from 2015-12-05T15:26
Late Hanafi Law in the Ottoman Empire from 2015-11-24T15:54
British-Ottoman Diplomacy and the Making of Maritime Law from 2015-08-21T20:20
Illicit Sex in Ottoman and French Algeria from 2015-03-26T09:07
Yeni Çağ Osmanlı Hukuk Sistemi'nde Kadın Mülkiyet Hakları from 2015-02-01T23:31
Yeni Ça? Osmanl? Hukuk Sistemi'nde Kad?n Mülkiyet Haklar? from 2015-02-01T23:31
Law and Order in Late Ottoman Egypt from 2014-11-20T06:52
Saharan Jews in French Algeria from 2014-10-31T10:31
Osmanlı Toplumunda Çocukluk from 2014-10-26T09:39
Kocalarını Zehirleyen Osmanlı Kadınları from 2014-07-13T07:36
Inside Ottoman Prisons from 2014-06-06T21:14
Galata and the Capitulations from 2014-02-08T12:20
Race, Slavery, and Islamic Law in the Early Modern Atlantic from 2014-01-17T22:57
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