Department of History

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This article examines the role played by extra-judicial officers in the Sharia court of seventeenth-century Istanbul. It makes two central arguments: that the Ottoman Sharia court of the period was not immune from the influence of extra-judicial actors even at the imperial capital where the highly centralized Ottoman ilmiye hierarchy was based; and that sicil studies can prove revealing about court procedures that deviated from conventional practice. Using a micro-level historical analysis, the paper examines two court cases from 1666 and 1685 about transgressions against the property and life of two women in the small Bucakbağı neighborhood of Istanbul. Local officers such as the Yedikule fortress warden (dizdar) and the neighborhood imam as well as the highest imperial office holders such as the deputy grand vizier (kaymakam) and the kadıasker were involved in manipulating the court’s proceedings in order to accommodate the interests of the men in power. The paper, therefore, contributes to the revisionist scholarship challenging the view that early modern Ottoman Sharia court enjoyed autonomy as a judicial body.

Sulh in Eighteenth-century Ottoman fatwa compilations. Hosainy, Hadi Mohammed (2007) Sulh in Eighteenth-century Ottoman fatwa compilations. [Thesis]. [img], PDF - Registered users only - Requires a PDF viewer such as GSview, Xpdf or Adobe Acrobat Reader 1169Kb, ...

Durante la década de 1820, el periódico oficial de la Gran Colombia editó selectivamente escritos de Francisco José de Caldas, exhibiéndolo como una figura galiléica —el martir de un régimen oscurantista—. La Gaceta se negó a reconocer el apoyo de la Monarquía española a Caldas y la extensa red que se dedicó a estudiar patrióticamente economía política e historia natural para la Corona. Los funcionarios colombianos hicieron uso de la cultura impresa para convencer a las audiencias nacionales de que la tiranía monárquica y el caótico federalismo habían sellado la suerte de Caldas. Lo hicieron para asegurar el estatus de Bogotá como capital y ratificar su autoridad centralizadora sobre otras ciudades que pudieran contestar estas pretensiones. Los oficiales colombianos reclamaban que Caldas había inspirado este llamado, suprimiendo con ello su apropiación de tradiciones de construcción estatal españolas de larga data. Las fuerzas que desarticulaban a Colombia en aquel entonces terminar...

Nineteenth-century republicans across the political spectrum agreed: the Spanish monarchy produced ‘miserable Indians’. Abolishing tribute and privatising communal lands, known as resguardos in New Granada (roughly today's Panama and Colombia), would transform that wretched class into equal citizens. Drawing on late eighteenth-century privatisation efforts by the Spanish Crown, early republican leaders in Gran Colombia inaugurated an era seeking equal access to wealth from communal land for all indigenous community members. After Gran Colombia (the first Colombian Republic, 1819–30) dissolved into New Granada, Ecuador and Venezuela in 1830, New Granada's experiments with indigenous resguardo policies went further. By then, legislative efforts considered the needs of all resguardo members, including unmarried mothers and their illegitimate children. Complex laws, diverse ecological terrain and nuanced social realities required well-trained surveyors to ensure each eligible in...