Seminar Großes Forschungsseminar B Türkische Studien Recht im Osmanischen Reich

The course is interested in law as a social practice and expert discourse geared to legitimise and control violence as well as to limit and perpetuate power. In the Ottoman Empire law was never understood as a single, unified body of rules and regulations; there coexisted knowledge based in theological discourses, customs and rules specific to local and religious communities as well as regulations originating from the will of the ruler or the central administration. Since the late eighteenth century European law was received and appropriated, often under direct or indirect pressure from imperialist powers. An increasing tendency toward the centralisation, codification and unification of law in the hands of the state are important elements of modernity shared by Ottoman society but never fully eliminating the multifarious character of Ottoman law. Topics covered: Fundamentals of šara and anaf fiqh – law literature in the Ottoman Empire – fetv collections – from customary to sultanic law and back: örf and nn – the role of the in Ottoman administration – understanding court registers (sicil) – law as negotiation –millet, imm and müstemin: Non-Muslims between community law and extra-territorial status – European law in the pre-tanmt-era – appropriation of European law – modern Ottoman law. Arbeitsaufwand bei Belegung als Forschungsseminar 1.5 Stunden/Woche Präsenz, 10.5 Stunden/Woche Vor- und Nachbereitung, 180 Stunden Hausarbeit (12 ECTS-Punkte), bei Belegung als Studienseminar 1.5 Stunden/Woche Präsenz und 10.5 Stunden/Woche Vor- und Nachbereitung (6 ECTS-Punkte). Das Seminar wird auf Englisch gehalten; Türkisch-Kenntnisse sind KEINE Voraussetzung. Burak, Guy, The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Hanafi School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Dostal, Walter, and Wolfgang Kraus, eds., Shattering Tradition Custom, Law and the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean (London et al.: Tauris, 2005). Ergene, Boaç A., Local Court, Provincial Society and Justice in the Ottoman Empire (Leiden et al.: Brill, 2003). Gerber, Haim, State, Society, and Law in Islam Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective (Albany NY: State University of New York, 1994). Johansen, Baber, Contingency in a Sacred Law Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh (Leiden et al.: Brill, 1999). Lippman, Matthew, Sean McConville, and Mordechai Yerushalmi, eds., Islamic Criminal Law and Procedure: an Introduction (New York, London: Praeger, 1988). Mundy, Martha, and Richard Saumarez Smith, Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007). Peirce, Leslie P., Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003). Peters, Rudolph, Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2005). Peters, Rudolph, and Peri J. Bearman, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law (Farnham et al.: Ashgate, 2014). Rohe, Mathias, Das Islamische Recht: Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2nd ed. (München: C. H. Beck, 2009). Schacht, Joseph, An Introduction to Islamic Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964). Stewart, Devin J., Amy Singer, and Baber Johansen, eds., Law and Society in Islam (Princeton: Wiener, 1996). Tucker, Judth E., Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law, (Cambrdge et al.: CUP, 2008). W3-Professur für Turkologie/Iranistik (Univ. Prof. Dr. Christoph Neumann) LMU München SoSe 2015 Univ.Prof.Dr. Neumann Christoph