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- Title
Petitioning the Sultan in Ottoman Egypt.
- Authors
Baldwin, James E.
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
EGYPT; TURKEY; ISLAMIC law -- History; ISLAMIC courts; PETITIONS; RIGHT of petition; LAW; JUDICIAL process (Islamic law); SULTANS; IMPERIALISM; EGYPTIAN history, 1517-1882; OTTOMAN Empire; HISTORY; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies, 2012, Vol 75, Issue 3, p499
- ISSN
0041-977X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0041977X12000535