Law and Division of Power in the Crimean Khanate (1532-1774)

With Special Reference to the Reign of Murad Giray (1678-1683)
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36653-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Turkish, Ottoman, Band 65, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage

The Crimean Khanate was often treated as a semi-nomadic, watered-down version of the Golden Horde, or yet another vassal state of the Ottoman Empire. This book revises these views by exploring the Khanate’s political and legal systems, which combined well organized and well developed institutions, which were rooted in different traditions (Golden Horde, Islamic and Ottoman). Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the Crimean court registers from the reign of Murad Giray (1678-1683), the book examines the role of the khan, members of his council and other officials in the Crimean political and judicial systems as well as the practice of the Crimean sharia court during the reign of Murad Giray.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Królikowska-Jedli&

Królikowska-Jedlinska, Natalia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

The Chronological Scope of the Research

Outline of the Book

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Note on Place Names, Proper Names, and Transliteration

Concordance of Frequently Mentioned Place Names

Glossary

Introduction

Historiography of the Crimean Khanate

Sources

1 Murad Giray and His Times

1 The Context of the Crimean Khanate Ruled by Murad Giray

2 Murad Giray as Viewed by Crimean Chroniclers

2 The Household, Deputies, and the Council of the Khan

1 The Khan’s Household

2 The Kalga

3 The Nuraddin and His Officials

4 The Khan’s Council

3 The Khan and the Nobles

1 The Crimean Nobles to 1532

2 The Crimean Nobles in the Years from 1532 to 1774

4 Provincial Kadis and Their Courts

1 The Kadi and Court Personnel

2 The Limitations of the Judicial Power of the Kadi and His Subordinates

5 Law and Its Practice in the Khanate’s Sharia Courts

1 The Law Applied in the Crimean Courts

2 Litigants of the Sharia Courts: A Basic Statistical Analysis

Conclusion: A Fragile Balance

Appendices

Appendix I: Transliteration, Translation, and Facsimile of the Order Issued by Khan Canibeg Giray

Appendix II: Transliteration, Translation, and Facsimile of a Case Brought to the Council of Murad Giray

Appendix III: Summaries of the Cases Judged at the Khan’s Council (1678–82)

Appendix IV: List of the Officials Recorded in the Crimean Sicils during the Reign of Murad Giray

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Natalia Królikowska-Jedlinska, Ph.D. (2010), University of Warsaw, is Assistant Professor at that university. She has published articles on the Crimean Khanate and the Northern Caucasus in the Early Modern Period.