Law and Legality in the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey

The editors of this volume have gathered leading scholars on the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey to chronologically examine the sweep and variety of sociolegal projects being carried in the region. These efforts intersect issues of property, gender, legal literacy, the demarcation of village boundaries, the codification of Islamic law, economic liberalism, crime and punishment, and refugee rights across the empire and the Aegean region of the Turkish Republic.

Kent F. Schull is Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Middle East History at Binghamton University, SUNY. He is author of Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity and coeditor (with Christine Isom-Verhaaren) of Living in the Ottoman Realm: Empire and Identity, Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries.

M. Safa Saraçoğlu is Associate Professor of History at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Robert Zens is Associate Professor of History at LeMoyne College. Schull and Zens are coeditors of the Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies.