Politics of honor in Ottoman Anatolia : sexual violence and socio-legal surveillance in the eighteenth century
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Politics of honor in Ottoman Anatolia : sexual violence and socio-legal surveillance in the eighteenth century
（The Ottoman Empire and its heritages : politics, society and economy, v. 62）
Brill, c2017
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Politics of honor in Ottoman Anatolia : sexual violence and socio-legal surveillance in the 18th century
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-276) and index
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Description
In Politics of Honor, Basak Tug 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, Tug 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".
Table of Contents
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 "Habitualness" to Violence
Sexual Violence, Honor and the Imperial State
Chapter 4
The Repertoire of Sexual Crimes in the Courts
Why fi'l-i seni' (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
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