Petitioning the Sultan in Ottoman Egypt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2770682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James E Baldwin, James Baldwin (Queen Mary University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 499-524 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-977X • E-ISSN: 1474-0699 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0041977x12000535 |
| OpenAlex | W2146281920 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article examines the role of petitions to the Sultan concerning private disputes in the legal system of Ottoman Egypt during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Previous studies have seen petitioning as a means for subjects to complain about abuses carried out by Ottoman officials: few scholars have engaged with the many petitions involving private disputes between subjects. Based on both original petitions and Ottoman bureaucratic records, this article consists of two parts and an appendix. Part 1 describes the petitioning process, including the procedure followed by the imperial palace when handling petitions. Part 2 analyses the various ways in which sending a petition could affect the outcome of a dispute. The appendix features a reproduction and transcription of a petition which has been annotated by several palace officials, illustrating its progress through the palace bureaucracy
Ancient history · Bureaucracy · Ottoman empire · Political science · Politics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Families in Therapy and Culture · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |