Islamic Law and Custom in the Courts of Ottoman Cairo
by
Reem A. Meshal
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In this book, the author examines sijills, the official documents of the Ottoman Islamic courts, to understand how sharia law, society and the early-modern economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman Cairo related to the practice of custom in determining rulings. In the sixteenth century,...