Sacred Law in the Holy City

The Khedival Challenge to the Ottomans as Seen from Jerusalem, 1829-1841
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13810-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 32, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 626 g

Reihe: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage

The Muslim community's political and socio-economic role in Jerusalem under Ottoman administration during the 1830s is analyzed in this volume from a natural law perspective. A bitter political contest between Sultan Mahmud II and Muhammad Ali Pasha resulted in the military occupation of Syria and imposition of a brutal new political and legal regime which crushed the indigenous elites of southern Syria. Through a careful analysis of the archives of the Islamic law court of Jerusalem, the study offers a fresh appraisal of how the Ottoman Empire ruled Jerusalem and considers the Muslim response, elucidating the reasons for the breakdown of their relations with non-Muslim Ottoman subjects and differentiating the Ottoman understanding of law and government from that of their enemies, the Wahhabis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mendelsohn Rood, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Judith Mendelsohn Rood, Ph.D. (1993) in Modern Arab and Ottoman History, University of Chicago, M.A. (1982) in Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, and B.A. (1980) in History, New College is Emeritus Professor of History and Middle East Studies, Biola University in La Mirada, California.