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Baldwin, James E. (2012) Petitioning the Sultan in Ottoman Egypt. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 75 (3). pp. 499-524. doi:10.1017/S0041977X12000535 ISSN 0041-977X.

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Abstract

This article examines the role of petitions to the Sultan concerning private disputes in the legal system of Ottoman Egypt during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Previous studies have seen petitioning as a means for subjects to complain about abuses carried out by Ottoman officials: few scholars have engaged with the many petitions involving private disputes between subjects. Based on both original petitions and Ottoman bureaucratic records, this article consists of two parts and an appendix. Part 1 describes the petitioning process, including the procedure followed by the imperial palace when handling petitions. Part 2 analyses the various ways in which sending a petition could affect the outcome of a dispute. The appendix features a reproduction and transcription of a petition which has been annotated by several palace officials, illustrating its progress through the palace bureaucracy.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History
Journal or Publication Title: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 0041-977X
Official Date: October 2012
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October 2012Published
Volume: 75
Number: 3
Page Range: pp. 499-524
DOI: 10.1017/S0041977X12000535
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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