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A fascinating and detailed micro-history of the trialof Midhat Pasa.--James E. Baldwin author of Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo A tour de force of socio-legal history of the late Ottoman Empire. Rubin leads the reader into a breathtaking journey through the history and historiography of one of the most serious political crises in late Ottoman history, the Yildiz Trial (1881), turning it into a thrilling microhistory.--Iris Agmon author of Family and Court: Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine

Carefully sifting through court documents, journalistic accounts, memoirs, and earlier historical studies, the author places the trial at Yildiz Palace within the framework of newly developing legalism and the sultan's determination to rid himself of the Ottoman Empire's leading exemplar of constitutionalism. Recommended.--Choice A fascinating and detailed micro-history of the trialof Midhat Pasa.--James E. Baldwin author of Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo A tour de force of socio-legal history of the late Ottoman Empire. Rubin leads the reader into a breathtaking journey through the history and historiography of one of the most serious political crises in late Ottoman history, the Yildiz Trial (1881), turning it into a thrilling microhistory.--Iris Agmon author of Family and Court: Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine The book is based on solid research and is theoretically informed, making an important contribution to the late Ottoman legal and political history. --International Journal of Middle East Studies

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Avi Rubin is senior lecturer in the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of Ottoman Nizamiye Courts: Law and Modernity.

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