Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire by Ma... - 9780755647682

Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman EmpireHarmonization, Property Rights and Sovereignty\nAuthor(s): Malissa Taylor\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: I.B. Tauris\nISBN-13: 9780755647682, 978-0755647682\nSynopsis\nUsing Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its classical articulation in the sixteenth century to its reformulation in the 1858 Land Code. The book demonstrates that well before the nineteenth century the tradition of Ottoman land tenure law had developed an indigenous form of property right that would remain intact in the Land Code. In addition, the rising consensus of the jurists that the sultan was the source of the land law paved the way for the wider legislative authority that the Ottoman state would increasingly assert in the Tanzimat period of reform. Demonstrating th.