Politics of Honor in Ottoman Anatolia : Sexual Violence and Socio-Legal Surveillance in the Eighteenth Century / by Başak Tuğ.
2017
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Politics of Honor in Ottoman Anatolia : Sexual Violence and Socio-Legal Surveillance in the Eighteenth Century / by Başak Tuğ.
Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Description
viii, 290 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Series
Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 62.
Formatted Contents Note
Social and legal order in the eighteenth century
Justice, imperial public order, and Ottoman politico-judicial authority
Oligarchic rule and local notables in the eighteenth century
The Kanun as legal practice in the eighteenth century
Petitioning and intervention : a question of power
The imperial council and petitions as a reflection of imperial law in legal practice
Petitionary (Ahkam) registers and socio-legal surveillance
Reporting sexual violence
Actors, strategies, and rhetoric
Petitions as a mirror of local cleavages
Banditry, sexual violence, and honor
Sexual violence as a sign of "habituation" to violence
Sexual violence, honor, and the Imperial State
The repertoire of sexual crimes in the courts
Why fiil-i seni? (Indecent Act), but not zina
Other expressions used in the registers to describe sexual assaults
The penal order of eighteenth-century Anatolia
The enigma of crimes and punishment in the court records
Social and institutional limits to the authority of local judges
Under whose discretion was sexual and moral order?
In lieu of conclusion: Silence and outcry in the records.
Justice, imperial public order, and Ottoman politico-judicial authority
Oligarchic rule and local notables in the eighteenth century
The Kanun as legal practice in the eighteenth century
Petitioning and intervention : a question of power
The imperial council and petitions as a reflection of imperial law in legal practice
Petitionary (Ahkam) registers and socio-legal surveillance
Reporting sexual violence
Actors, strategies, and rhetoric
Petitions as a mirror of local cleavages
Banditry, sexual violence, and honor
Sexual violence as a sign of "habituation" to violence
Sexual violence, honor, and the Imperial State
The repertoire of sexual crimes in the courts
Why fiil-i seni? (Indecent Act), but not zina
Other expressions used in the registers to describe sexual assaults
The penal order of eighteenth-century Anatolia
The enigma of crimes and punishment in the court records
Social and institutional limits to the authority of local judges
Under whose discretion was sexual and moral order?
In lieu of conclusion: Silence and outcry in the records.
Summary
"In Politics of Honor, Başak Tuğ examines moral and gender order through the glance of legal litigations and petitions in mid-eighteenth century Anatolia. By juxtaposing the Anatolian petitionary registers, subjects' petitions, and Ankara and Bursa court records, she analyzes the institutional framework of legal scrutiny of sexual order. Through a revisionist interpretation, Tuğ demonstrates that a more bureaucratized system of petitioning, a farther hierarchically organized judicial review mechanism, and a more centrally organized penal system of the mid-eighteenth century reinforced the existing mechanisms of social surveillance by the community and the co-existing 'discretionary authority' of the Ottoman state over sexual crimes to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial 'disorder'"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index.
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Available in Other Form
Online version: Tuğ, Başak, author. Politics of honor in Ottoman Anatolia Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Call Number
KKX4200 .T85 2017
Language
English
ISBN
9789004266971 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9004266976
9004266976
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