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Record Nr.

UNINA9910420855403321

Autore

Apellániz Francisco

Titolo

Breaching the Bronze Wall: Franks at Mamluk and Ottoman Courts and Markets / / Francisco Apellániz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brill, 2020

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2020

ISBN

90-04-43173-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Mediterranean Reconfigurations ; ; 2

Disciplina

905

Soggetti

History

Muslims

Islam

Egypt History 1250-1517

Syria History 1260-1516

Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Producing, handling and archiving evidence in Mediterranean societies -- 'Men like the Franks' : dealing with diversity in Medieval norms and courts -- Ottoman legal attitudes towards diversity.

Sommario/riassunto

Breaching the Bronze Wall deals with the idea that the word of honorable Muslims constituted proof and with the concept that written documents and the word of non-Muslims were inferior. Foreign merchants in cities like Istanbul, Damascus or Alexandria could barely prove any claim, as neither their contracts nor their words were of any value if countered by Muslims. Francisco Apellániz explores how both groups labored to overcome these ‘biases against non-Muslims’ in the courts and markets of Mamluk Egypt and Syria of the 14th and 15th centuries, and how the Ottoman conquest (1517) imposed a new, orthodox view on the problem. The book dives into the Middle Eastern archive and the Ottoman Dīvān , and scrutinizes the intricacies of sharia and the handling of these intracacies by consuls, dragomans, qaḍīs and other legal actors.