In Rendre la justice à Amid, Yavuz Aykan analyses the legal life of the city of Amid, the capital of Ottoman Diyarbekir province in the 18th century. Making use of court records from the cities of Amid, Harput and Mardin, he explores the centrality of the qadi, the provincial governor, and the provincial mufti to law enforcement. By tracing the genealogies of legal texts used by the mufti for fatwa production, Aykan maps out the broader transformations of various judicial interpretations in their journey from Greater Syria to Transoxiana and the Golden Horde, and finally into Ottoman legal praxis. As such, this book offers a far more historicized approach to the multiple actors and hierarchies of juridical systems operating in this provincial setting.
Prologue : lâespace historique
Le Kurdistan : la zone culturelle
Amid : la ville
Première partie
Lâadministration de la justice à Diyarbekir : le cadi et le gouverneur (vâlî)
Le cadi et son travail
Lâoffice du cadi (kadılık) à Amid
La carrière dâun cadi dâAmid : le cas de Kara Yusuf
Le travail du cadi
Le cadi dans les affaires de la province de Diyarbekir
Le Concile dâAmid (Divân-ı Amid) et la justice du gouverneur
Le gouverneur dans lâhistoriographie et dans lâhistoire
Le gouverneur de la province de Diyarbekir
Le gouverneur dans son contexte: le cas de Harput et Amid
Un homme local ? Le hâkim-i âörf dâAmid
Le cadi, le gouverneur et la justice du sultan
Conclusion
Historians of the Ottoman Empire, Kurdish and the Middle East history. Also the readers/scholars interested in legal history, Islamic law, and comparative legal and political sociology.