The Empire in Theory
The Empire in Theory
Ottoman sigills—repositories of legal documents—shed considerable light on everyday legal practices. In particular, they reflect the processes by which a multiethnic, multiconfessional, geographically vast empire came to be united in “bureaucratized justice,” in which the authority of clan, community, and sect gradually yielded to a more uniform interpretation and application of the law as set out by the state. The result was the creation of an Ottoman political identity that paved the way for the notion of citizenship.
Keywords: secularism, sharia, sigill, sin
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