03460nam 22007574a 450 991109380490332120251117120159.0978661275894297805209269740520926978978159734762415973476209781282758940128275894210.1525/9780520926974(CKB)1000000000005332(EBL)223551(OCoLC)475928359(SSID)ssj0000205551(PQKBManifestationID)11200918(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205551(PQKBWorkID)10192757(PQKB)11491263(StDuBDS)EDZ0000056031(MiAaPQ)EBC223551(DE-B1597)519719(DE-B1597)9780520926974(Au-PeEL)EBL223551(CaPaEBR)ebr10048752(CaONFJC)MIL275894(dli)HEB08968(MiU)MIU01000000000000011661705(Perlego)550659(EXLCZ)99100000000000533220021018d2003 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrMorality tales law and gender in the Ottoman court of Aintab /Leslie Peirce1st ed.Berkeley, CA University of California Pressc20031 online resource (491 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780520228900 0520228901 9780520228924 0520228928 Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-452) and index.Front matter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Note on Translation and Transliteration --Maps --Introduction --Part One. The Setting: Aintab and Its Court --Part Two. Gender and the Terrain of Local Justice --Part Three. Law, Community, and the State --Part Four. Making Justice at the Court of Aintab --Notes --IndexIn this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one year's proceedings of the court of Aintab, an Anatolian city that had recently been conquered by the Ottoman sultanate, Peirce argues that local residents responded to new opportunities and new constraints by negotiating flexible legal practices. Their actions and the different compromises they reached in court influenced how society viewed gender and also created a dialogue with the ruling regime over mutual rights and obligations. Locating its discussion of gender and legal issues in the context of the changing administrative practices and shifting power relations of the period, Morality Tales argues that it was only in local interpretation that legal rules acquired vitality and meaning.Women (Islamic law)TurkeyHistorySex and lawHistoryWomen (Islamic law)History.Sex and lawHistory.346.56101/34EH 5384rvkPeirce Leslie P628705MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911093804903321Morality tales2315295UNINA