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Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo

By James Baldwin

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What did Islamic law mean in the early modern period, a world of great Muslim empires? Often portrayed as the quintessential jurists' law, to a large extent it was developed by scholars outside the purview of the state. However, for the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, justice was the ultimate duty of the monarch, and Islamic law was a tool of legitimation and governance. James E. Baldwin examines how the interplay of these two conceptions of Islamic law - religious scholarship and royal justice -...Show more

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9781474403092

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Edinburgh University Press

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2016

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Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo

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