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

June Starr

State University of New York Press, c1992

  • : CH
  • : PB

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Bibliography: p. [207]-230

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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. Bodrum—One 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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