Bogac Ergene
Biographic Data
| ID | 224893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bogac Ergene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bogac |
| FAMILY NAME | Ergene |
| SIGNATURE | ERGENE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
The Price of Justice
The Textual Evolution of the Ottoman Şeyhülislam s’ Fetva s
In this article, we use a mix of computational techniques to identify textual shifts in the Ottoman şeyhülislam s’ fetva s between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. Our analysis, supplemented by a close reading of these texts, indicates that the fetva s underwent multiple forms of transformation, a consequence of the institutional evolution of the şeyhülislam ’s fetva office ( fetvahane ) that aimed to speed up and streamline the production …
Oppression and Salvation
Oppression and Salvation: Annotated Legal Documents from the Ottoman Book of Complaints of 1675. By Haim Gerber. Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker, vol. 27. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 2018. Pp. 188. €68
Semantic Mapping of An Ottoman Fetva Compilation
Fetva collections are important sources for Islamic legal history. However, few scholars have considered a particular collection of fetvas or the fetvas of an individual jurist as specific areas of legal and historical exploration. Instead, most researchers use fetvas selectively and instrumentally, that is in (at best) small groups, and in their explorations of various other topics. This article proposes computational methodologies that could ch…
Halal Food
This book explores what halal (permissible) food means to Muslims; how its legal and cultural interpretations have changed over time and in different geographies; and how it shaped modern considerations about everything from animal slaughter and minority rights to consumption and industrial practices in the modern world. Historically, Muslims used food to define their identities in relation to co-believers and non-Muslims. Food taboos are thus ke…
Crime and Punishment in Ottoman Times
Ruling for more than six centuries over lands that spanned three continents, the Ottomans developed a system of law enforcement that initially relied on fines collected by local agents. In the sixteenth century, much of the revenue from these fines went to the local officials in charge of identifying suspects and punishing criminals. To prevent corruption, the personnel responsible for adjudicating criminals were not also responsible for punishin…
Social Identity and Patterns of Interaction in the Sharia Court of Kastamonu (1740-44)
In this article I introduce quantitative techniques and procedures to analyze how various social groups in mid-18th-century Ottoman Kastamonu experienced the court process. By processing the information found in three Kastamonu court registers, I attempt to determine the group identities of court clients and to compare the choices made by different groups in various legal circumstances. I will identify the kinds of issues brought to court by diff…
Family and Court
book reviews 296 executive officials, not restricted by the rules of the Shar # ia” (p. 196). Peters notes that in some independent Muslim countries, modernizing elites worked to codify siy § sa justice, leaving Islamic criminal law unmodified but applicable in increasingly diminishing areas. His discus- sion provides extensive documentation of actual practice. Islamic criminal law gained new importance in the final decades of the 20th century, a…
Document Use in Ottoman Courts of Law
Cet article explore un ensemble de registres des tribunaux ottomans (sicils) de la fin du dix-septieme et du debut du dix-huitieme siecles dans le nord de l'Anatolie (Cankin et Kastamonu), afin d'examiner le role des documents ecrits dans les procedures judiciaires. Grâce a un examen detaille des proces et des documents specifiques de l'epoque, cet article demontre que ces textes ecrits ont joue un role limite, en tant que temoignages, dans la pr…
Pursuing Justice in an Islamic Context
Costs of Court Usage in Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Anatolia
This article investigates the costs of court usage in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman Anatolia, with the help of the data collected from twenty-five court registers of Çankırı and Kastamonu. It utilizes the information available for the fees charged by the two courts for dividing the estates of deceased among their heirs. The findings of this article indicate not only that the courts charged for specific services substantially more th…
On Ottoman Justice
This essay investigates the ways in which the notion of "justice" was utilized as a mechanism of political legitimization in the early-modern Ottoman Empire. I claim that there existed alternative definitions of justice and that these were instrumental in the struggle between the central government and those official and unofficial power-holders in the administrative and geographical peripheries of the empire. According to the specialized termino…
On Ottoman Justice
This essay investigates the ways in which the notion of "justice" was utilized as a mechanism of political legitimization in the early-modern Ottoman Empire. I claim that there existed alternative definitions of justice and that these were instrumental in the struggle between the central government and those official and unofficial power-holders in the administrative and geographical peripheries of the empire. According to the specialized termino…
Family and Court
book reviews 296 executive officials, not restricted by the rules of the Shar # ia” (p. 196). Peters notes that in some independent Muslim countries, modernizing elites worked to codify siy § sa justice, leaving Islamic criminal law unmodified but applicable in increasingly diminishing areas. His discus- sion provides extensive documentation of actual practice. Islamic criminal law gained new importance in the final decades of the 20th century, a…
Crime and Punishment in Ottoman Times
Ruling for more than six centuries over lands that spanned three continents, the Ottomans developed a system of law enforcement that initially relied on fines collected by local agents. In the sixteenth century, much of the revenue from these fines went to the local officials in charge of identifying suspects and punishing criminals. To prevent corruption, the personnel responsible for adjudicating criminals were not also responsible for punishin…
Pursuing Justice in an Islamic Context
Costs of Court Usage in Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Anatolia
This article investigates the costs of court usage in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman Anatolia, with the help of the data collected from twenty-five court registers of Çankırı and Kastamonu. It utilizes the information available for the fees charged by the two courts for dividing the estates of deceased among their heirs. The findings of this article indicate not only that the courts charged for specific services substantially more th…
Semantic Mapping of An Ottoman Fetva Compilation
Fetva collections are important sources for Islamic legal history. However, few scholars have considered a particular collection of fetvas or the fetvas of an individual jurist as specific areas of legal and historical exploration. Instead, most researchers use fetvas selectively and instrumentally, that is in (at best) small groups, and in their explorations of various other topics. This article proposes computational methodologies that could ch…
Social Identity and Patterns of Interaction in the Sharia Court of Kastamonu (1740-44)
In this article I introduce quantitative techniques and procedures to analyze how various social groups in mid-18th-century Ottoman Kastamonu experienced the court process. By processing the information found in three Kastamonu court registers, I attempt to determine the group identities of court clients and to compare the choices made by different groups in various legal circumstances. I will identify the kinds of issues brought to court by diff…
On Ottoman Justice
This essay investigates the ways in which the notion of "justice" was utilized as a mechanism of political legitimization in the early-modern Ottoman Empire. I claim that there existed alternative definitions of justice and that these were instrumental in the struggle between the central government and those official and unofficial power-holders in the administrative and geographical peripheries of the empire. According to the specialized termino…
Costs of Court Usage in Seventeenth- And Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Anatolia
This article investigates the costs of court usage in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman Anatolia, with the help of the data collected from twenty-five court registers of Çankırı and Kastamonu. It utilizes the information available for the fees charged by the two courts for dividing the estates of deceased among their heirs. The findings of this article indicate not only that the courts charged for specific services substantially more th…
Pursuing Justice in an Islamic Context
Document Use in Ottoman Courts of Law
Cet article explore un ensemble de registres des tribunaux ottomans (sicils) de la fin du dix-septieme et du debut du dix-huitieme siecles dans le nord de l'Anatolie (Cankin et Kastamonu), afin d'examiner le role des documents ecrits dans les procedures judiciaires. Grâce a un examen detaille des proces et des documents specifiques de l'epoque, cet article demontre que ces textes ecrits ont joue un role limite, en tant que temoignages, dans la pr…
Family and Court
book reviews 296 executive officials, not restricted by the rules of the Shar # ia” (p. 196). Peters notes that in some independent Muslim countries, modernizing elites worked to codify siy § sa justice, leaving Islamic criminal law unmodified but applicable in increasingly diminishing areas. His discus- sion provides extensive documentation of actual practice. Islamic criminal law gained new importance in the final decades of the 20th century, a…
Social Identity and Patterns of Interaction in the Sharia Court of Kastamonu (1740-44)
In this article I introduce quantitative techniques and procedures to analyze how various social groups in mid-18th-century Ottoman Kastamonu experienced the court process. By processing the information found in three Kastamonu court registers, I attempt to determine the group identities of court clients and to compare the choices made by different groups in various legal circumstances. I will identify the kinds of issues brought to court by diff…
Crime and Punishment in Ottoman Times
Ruling for more than six centuries over lands that spanned three continents, the Ottomans developed a system of law enforcement that initially relied on fines collected by local agents. In the sixteenth century, much of the revenue from these fines went to the local officials in charge of identifying suspects and punishing criminals. To prevent corruption, the personnel responsible for adjudicating criminals were not also responsible for punishin…
Halal Food
This book explores what halal (permissible) food means to Muslims; how its legal and cultural interpretations have changed over time and in different geographies; and how it shaped modern considerations about everything from animal slaughter and minority rights to consumption and industrial practices in the modern world. Historically, Muslims used food to define their identities in relation to co-believers and non-Muslims. Food taboos are thus ke…
Semantic Mapping of An Ottoman Fetva Compilation
Fetva collections are important sources for Islamic legal history. However, few scholars have considered a particular collection of fetvas or the fetvas of an individual jurist as specific areas of legal and historical exploration. Instead, most researchers use fetvas selectively and instrumentally, that is in (at best) small groups, and in their explorations of various other topics. This article proposes computational methodologies that could ch…
The Textual Evolution of the Ottoman Şeyhülislam s’ Fetva s
In this article, we use a mix of computational techniques to identify textual shifts in the Ottoman şeyhülislam s’ fetva s between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. Our analysis, supplemented by a close reading of these texts, indicates that the fetva s underwent multiple forms of transformation, a consequence of the institutional evolution of the şeyhülislam ’s fetva office ( fetvahane ) that aimed to speed up and streamline the production …
Oppression and Salvation
Oppression and Salvation: Annotated Legal Documents from the Ottoman Book of Complaints of 1675. By Haim Gerber. Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker, vol. 27. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 2018. Pp. 188. €68
The Price of Justice
Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Ottoman Empire History and Society (5 works) · Art (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works)