@article{THESIS,
      recid = {12332},
      author = {Kaya, Betul},
      title = {A Sociolegal History of Judging Non-Muslim Communal  Affairs in Early Seventeenth-Century Greater Istanbul},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2024-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      pages = {321},
      abstract = {This dissertation examines disputes over non-Muslim  communal spaces in greaterIstanbul in the late sixteenth  and early seventeenth centuries. In Chapter 1, a  historical
background is drawn to illustrate the  transformation of the western Bosphorus villages, such  as
Istinye and Yeniköy, into suburbs, the absorption of  migrants in these suburban villages, and the
state's  imposition of uniform tax regulations in Istanbul's  hinterland. Chapter 2 brings up a legal
debate between the  judge of Galata Taşköprüzāde Kemāleddīn Efendi (d. 1621)  and the chief
jurisconsult Ḫocazāde Meḥmed Efendi (d. 1615)  over a Christian religious parade in the streets
of  Yeniköy. This debate is analyzed with respect to the  standardization of Ottoman document
formulation and the  emergence of a prohibitive and restrictive legal language  in dealing with
non-Muslim communal affairs. Chapter 3  evaluates a legal procedure in the early modern
Ottoman  judicial administration that subjected public law issues to  a process of imperial
ratification. Chapter 4 deals with a  protracted legal dispute over the Jewish cemetery  of
Kasımpaşa in the late sixteenth century and demonstrates  interactions between various clashing
interests at the  individual, local, communal, and imperial levels in the  processing of public issues
concerning non-Muslim communal  affairs.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/12332},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.12332},
}