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

• Autore: Apellániz Francisco
• Pubblicazione: Brill, 2020; Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2020
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 905
• Soggetto topico: History; Muslims; Islam
• Soggetto geografico: Egypt History 1250-1517; Syria History 1260-1516; Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
• Soggetto non controllato: Middle Eastern history
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Breaching the Bronze Wall: Franks at Mamluk and Ottoman Courts and Markets
• ISBN: 90-04-43173-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910420855403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Mediterranean Reconfigurations ; ; 2.