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In Politics of Honor, Basak Tug examines moral and gender order through the glance of legal litigations and petitions in mid-eighteenth century Anatolia. By juxtaposing the Anatolian petitionary registers, subjects' petitions, and Ankara and Bursa court records, she analyzes the institutional framework of legal scrutiny of sexual order. Through a revisionist interpretation, Tug demonstrates that a more bureaucratized system of petitioning, a farther hierarchically organized judicial review mechanism, and a more centrally organized penal system of the mid-eighteenth century reinforced the existing mechanisms of social surveillance by the community and the co-existing discretionary authority of the Ottoman state over sexual crimes to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial disorder .

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Author:   Basak Tug
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   62
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.599kg
ISBN:  

9789004266971

ISBN 10:   9004266976
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   16 February 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Maps and Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 Social and Legal Order in the Eighteenth Century Justice, Imperial Public Order, and Ottoman Politico-Judicial Authority Oligarchic Rule and Local Notables in the Eighteenth Century The Kanun as Legal Practice in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 2 Petitioning and Intervention: A Question of Power The Imperial Council and Petitions as a Reflection of Imperial Law in Legal Practice Petitionary (Ahkam) Registers and Socio-Legal Surveillance Reporting Sexual Violence Actors, Strategies, and Rhetoric Petitions as a Mirror of Local Cleavages Chapter 3 Banditry, Sexual Violence and Honor Sexual Violence as a Sign of Habitualness to Violence Sexual Violence, Honor and the Imperial State Chapter 4 The Repertoire of Sexual Crimes in the Courts Why fi'l-i seni' (Indecent Act), but not zina Other Expressions Used in the Registers to Describe Sexual Assaults Chapter 5 The Penal Order of Eighteenth-Century Anatolia The Enigma of Crime and Punishment in the Court Records Social and Institutional Limits to the Authority of Local Judges Under Whose Discretion was Sexual and Moral Order? In Lieu of Conclusion: Silence and Outcry in the Records Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Basak Tug, Ph.D. (2009), New York University, is Assistant Professor at Istanbul Bilgi University. She has published articles on gender, sexuality and politics in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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