Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Note on Transliteration ix
6. Notes on Contributors x
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I Historiographical and Methodological Considerations
9. 1 Corruption in Modern Ottoman Historiography 17
10. 2. Writing History Backwards and Forwards: Thoughts on the Notion of ‘Ottoman Corruption’ 37
11. Part II Corruption in the Early Modern Era
12. 3 On Bribery, Law and Confiscation: Revisiting the Case of Kira, the Jew 65
13. 4 Between Law, Custom and Abuse: Ottoman Judges’ Collection of Fees during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 83
14. 5 ‘Corruption’ and the Misuse of Waqf Funds 103
15. 6 Valued but not Marketed: Revisiting the ‘Sale of Public Offices’ in the Ottoman Empire 126
16. Part III Corruption in the Tanzimat Era and Afterwards
17. 7 Codification Movements and Problematisation of Corruption in Nineteenth-century Ottoman Governance 147
18. 8 Invention of Corruption: The 1840 Penal Code, Power and Bureaucracy* 171
19. 9 Corruption and Construction: The Stained History of the Building Council 210
20. 10 ‘The Work of Inspection Cannot be Freed of Confusions and Amalgamations’: Purity, Danger and the Practice of Late Ottoman Statecraft 233
21. Part IV Comparative Reflections
22. 11 Reconsidering Administrative Networks of Taxation, Legal Execution and Bribery from the Mamluk to the Ottoman Period: A Comparative Historical Perspective 257
23. 12 Ottoman Corruption: The View from Qing China 274
24. 13 Afterword: The Ottomans in European and Other Contexts 289
25. Combined Bibliography 305
26. Index 335