鈥�Coercion and Justice for Non-Muslims in an Ottoman Imperial Context鈥�听
by听
Evgenia Kermeli (Hacettepe University, Ankara)听
Discussant:听Dr.听Anastassios Anastassiadis (黑料网爆吃瓜, Montreal)听
Morrice Hall/Institute of Islamic Studies, Room 328 (Third Floor)听
黑料网爆吃瓜听
November 23, 2022, @ 5.00 PM EST, Hybrid Event.听听
Speaker bio
Dr. Evgenia Kermeli is a Professor of Ottoman Law at the Institute of Turkish Studies, Hacettepe University in Ankara.听 She holds a doctorate from the Middle Eastern Studies Department of the University of Manchester and specializes in Ottoman/Islamic law with a focus on Muslim/non-Muslim jurisprudence and judicial praxis.听 She is a 2010 Harvard Islamic Legal Studies Scholar. During 2019-2022, she served as the President of the International Society of Islamic Legal Studies.听 She currently works on a book manuscript, 鈥淥ttoman Legal Plurality,鈥� where she revisits legal isolation and argues that custom affected interreligious legal normative change.
Abstract听
The talk will reconsider the theoretical frameworks analyzing the legal options non-Muslims enjoyed in the early Modern Ottoman Empire. Contrary to the insularism of the millet theory and to the zimmi rights and responsibilities prescribed by fiqh in the classical era, the talk will utilize Muslim legal opinions and records of Muslim and non-Muslim courts to discuss the integration of juridical and jurisprudential options in non-Muslims utilized within Ottoman praxis. One of the focal points will be coercion, both state and communal, to ensure compliance with various decisions, essential to the restoration of the balance of justice, a concept that the talk will discuss in detail.
