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Politics of Honor in Ottoman Anatolia
Sexual Violence and Socio-Legal Surveillance in the Eighteenth Century
Series: - The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Volume: 62
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In Politics of Honor, BaÅak TuÄ examines moral and gender order through the glance of legal litigations and petitions in mid-eighteenth century Anatolia. By juxtaposing the Anatolian petitionary registers, subjectsâ petitions, and Ankara and Bursa court records, she analyzes the institutional framework of legal scrutiny of sexual order. Through a revisionist interpretation, TuÄ 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 âdiscretionary authorityâ of the Ottoman state over sexual crimes to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial âdisorderâ.
BaÅak TuÄ, Ph.D. (2009), New York University, is Assistant Professor at Ä°stanbul Bilgi University. She has published articles on gender, sexuality and politics in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Acknowledgments
List of Maps and Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1
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
Chapter 2
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
Chapter 3
Banditry, Sexual Violence and Honor
Sexual Violence as a Sign of âHabitualnessâ to Violence
Sexual Violence, Honor and the Imperial State
Chapter 4
The Repertoire of Sexual Crimes in the Courts
Why fiâl-i Åeniâ (Indecent Act), but not zina
Other Expressions Used in the Registers to Describe Sexual Assaults
Chapter 5
The Penal Order of Eighteenth-Century Anatolia
The Enigma of Crime 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
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Maps and Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1
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
Chapter 2
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
Chapter 3
Banditry, Sexual Violence and Honor
Sexual Violence as a Sign of âHabitualnessâ to Violence
Sexual Violence, Honor and the Imperial State
Chapter 4
The Repertoire of Sexual Crimes in the Courts
Why fiâl-i Åeniâ (Indecent Act), but not zina
Other Expressions Used in the Registers to Describe Sexual Assaults
Chapter 5
The Penal Order of Eighteenth-Century Anatolia
The Enigma of Crime 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
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
All interested in gender and sexualities in history, Middle/Near Eastern studies departments and librarians; scholars interested in Ottoman social history, Islamic law, and honor discourses and practices in history.