Prostitution, Islamic Law and Ottoman Societies

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  • James E. Baldwin
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This article examines the treatment of prostitution in several genres of Ottoman legal writing—manuals and commentaries of Islamic jurisprudence, fatwās (legal opinions) and ḳānūnnāmes (Sultanic legislation)—and looks at how prostitution was dealt with in practice by the empire’s sharīʿa courts and by its provincial executive authorities. The article uses prostitution as a case study to investigate the relationships between the different genres of legal writing and between normative law and legal practice. It also throws light on various manifestations of prostitution in the Ottoman provinces of Egypt and Syria between the mid-sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries. Cet article examine le traitement de la prostitution dans plusieurs genres juridiques ottomans – manuels de droit musulman et leurs commentaires, fatwas (avis juridiques) et ḳānūnnāmes (législation sultanienne) – et étudie la manière dont les tribunaux islamiques de l’empire et les autorités exécutives provinciales abordaient la prostitution dans la pratique. Cette étude de cas est aussi l’occasion d’examiner les relations qu’entretiennent divers genres de textes juridiques, ainsi que les liens unissant la théorie juridique et les pratiques judiciaires. L’article décrit enfin plusieurs formes de prostitution pratiquées dans les provinces ottomanes d’Égypte et de Syrie entre le milieu du xvie et le milieu du xviiie siècle.

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تاریخ انتشار 2012