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This is the first attempt to demonstrate systematically the existence of a largely impersonal, predictable paradigm and a functioning, institutional framework of law in the Ottoman empire. The author is quite successful in his attempt. - Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University The project of this work is very important. The author has read widely in the anthropology of law, not just Islamic studies, and consequently the book is one of the very few works on Islamic law that is grounded in more than merely textual scholarship. It is difficult to overstate the significance of Gerber's findings for legal studies, and for Ottoman studies. - A. Kevin Reinhart, Dartmouth College

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Haim Gerber is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Islamic Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Social Origins of the Modern Middle East and Islam, Guerrilla War, and Revolution: A Study in Comparative Social History.

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