Law as metaphor : from Islamic courts to the Palace of Justice
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Law as metaphor : from Islamic courts to the Palace of Justice
State University of New York Press, c1992
- : CH
- : PB
Available at 13 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. [207]-230
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explains the growth of secular law in a Middle East nation, revealing it to be the product of elite competition over control of the state, a competition the secular elites won in Turkey when Ataturk set up the new Republic. The author demonstrates the great extent to which secularism dominates the discourse of Turkish conflict resolution by the mid-1960s. Her work exemplifies the uses of empirical field research set within a historical context.
Table of Contents
Maps
Figures
Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Orthography
Introduction
I. The Historical Context: From Kadi Courts to the Palace of Justice
1. The Search for a New Society
2. Seriat and Kanun: Islamic Law and Secular State Law
II. From Ottoman to Modem Times: The Restructuring of Social Space and Social Relations
3. Land Transformations
4. BodrumOne Hundred Years of Solitude
5. Gender and Family Transformations
III. The Development of Secular Law
6. Managing Disputes at the Village Level: Cultural and Legal Forms
7. Judicial Decision-Making in District Courts
8. The Continuing Dialectic
Appendix I. Chronology of Uprisings Against the Ottoman Empire and Significant Events in the Formation of the New Republic
Appendix II. Turkish Rural Law Enforcement Agents
Selected Glossary
Laws, Statutes, and Codes
Bibliography
Index
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