6. A culture of disputing: how did Cairenes use the legal system?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vi
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Note on transliteration and dates xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. A brief portrait of Cairo under Ottoman rule 20
8. 2. Cairo’s legal system: institutions and actors 33
9. 3. Royal justice: The Dīvān-i Hümāyūn and the Dīwān al-ʿĀlī 55
10. 4. Government authority, the interpretation of fiqh, and the production of applied law 72
11. 5. The privatization of justice: dispute resolution as a domain of political competition 99
12. 6. A culture of disputing: how did Cairenes use the legal system? 117
13. Conclusion: Ottoman Cairo’s legal system and grand narratives 136
14. Appendix: examples of documents used in this study 143
15. Notes 159
16. Map of Cairo in the eighteenth century 203
17. Glossary 204
18. Sources and works cited 210
19. Index 229