8. “Seeking the Water of Baptism”

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Empires and Legal Pluralism 1
5. Part I: Composite Polities across Empires
6. 2. “Bundles of Hyphens” 19
7. 3. Litigating Empire 49
8. Part II: Political and Religious Imagination
9. 4. Aspects of Legal Pluralism in the Ottoman Empire 81
10. 5. Reconstructing Early Modern Notions of Legal Pluralism 109
11. 6. Between Justice and Economics 143
12. Part III: Constructing Imperial Jurisdiction
13. 7. Magistrates in Empire 171
14. 8. “Seeking the Water of Baptism” 199
15. 9. “A Pretty Gov[ernment]!” 233
16. Part IV: Concluding Perspectives
17. 10. Laws’ Histories 259
18. 11. Rules of Law, Politics of Empire 279
19. About the Contributors 295
20. Index 299