Law and Division of Power in the Crimean Khanate (1532-1774)
Subtitle: With Special Reference to the Reign of Murad Giray (1678-1683)
Series: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage; 65
Publisher: Brill
Published: 22 Nov 2018
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789004366534
Copyright date: 2019
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The Chronological Scope of the Research; title: Outline of the Book; title: Acknowledgments; title: List of Illustrations; title: List of Abbreviations; title: Note on Place Names, Proper Names, and Transliteration; title: Concordance of Frequently Mentioned Place Names; title: Glossary; title: Introduction; title: Historiography of the Crimean Khanate; title: Sources; title: 1 Murad Giray and His Times; title: 1 The Context of the Crimean Khanate Ruled by Murad Giray; title: 2 Murad Giray as Viewed by Crimean Chroniclers; title: 2 The Household, Deputies, and the Council of the Khan; title: 1 The Khan’s Household; title: 2 The Kalga; title: 3 The Nuraddin and His Officials; title: 4 The Khan’s Council; title: 3 The Khan and the Nobles; title: 1 The Crimean Nobles to 1532; title: 2 The Crimean Nobles in the Years from 1532 to 1774; title: 4 Provincial Kadıs and Their Courts; title: 1 The Kadı and Court Personnel; title: 2 The Limitations of the Judicial Power of the Kadı and His Subordinates; title: 5 Law and Its Practice in the Khanate’s Sharia Courts; title: 1 The Law Applied in the Crimean Courts; title: 2 Litigants of the Sharia Courts: A Basic Statistical Analysis; title: Conclusion: A Fragile Balance; title: Appendices; title: Appendix I: Transliteration, Translation, and Facsimile of the Order Issued by Khan Canibeg Giray; title: Appendix II: Transliteration, Translation, and Facsimile of a Case Brought to the Council of Murad Giray; title: Appendix III: Summaries of the Cases Judged at the Khan’s Council (1678–82); title: Appendix IV: List of the Officials Recorded in the Crimean Sicils during the Reign of Murad Giray; title: Selected Bibliography; title: Index