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The Capitulations and the Ottoman Legal System

The Capitulations and the Ottoman Legal System PDF Author: Maurits van den Boogert
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047406125
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Book Description
Pre-modern Western sources generally claim that European mercantile communities in the Ottoman Empire enjoyed legal autonomy, and were thus effectively immune to Ottoman justice. At the same time, they report numerous disputes with Ottoman officials over jurisdiction (“avanias”), which seems to contradict this claim, the discrepancy being considered proof of the capriciousness of the Ottoman legal system. Modern studies of Ottoman-European relations in this period have tended uncritically to accept this interpretation, which is challenged in this book.