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This book features essays that explore corruption and its manifestations in the Ottoman Empire through social, political, economic, legal and discursive approaches. Its main goal is to contextualise the notion and investigate its meanings, conceptual parallels and associated behaviour via a nuanced historical framework. Combining theoretical analysis with detailed case studies, the volume also examines various corruption-related crimes and how they were regulated in the Ottoman polity across the early modern and modern periods.
Bringing together established and emerging Ottoman scholars, the collection advances the field by considering contrasting perspectives on the topic. The book's scope extends beyond the Ottoman Empire to include comparative perspectives from other historical settings, such as Mamluk Egypt and Qing China, offering readers a broader understanding of how different polities defined and confronted corruption.
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
A Note on Transliteration
Contributors
Introduction to the Volume
Boğaç Ergene & Cengiz Kırlı
Part I. Historiographical and Methodological Considerations
1. Corruption in Modern Ottoman Historiography
Boğaç Ergene
2. Writing History Backwards and Forwards: Thoughts on the Notion of 'Ottoman Corruption'
Avi Rubin & Iris Agmon
Part II. Corruption in the Early Modern Era
3. On Bribery, Law and Confiscation: Revisiting the Case of Kira, the Jew
Yavuz Aykan
4. Between Law, Custom and Abuse: Ottoman Judges' Collection of Fees During the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Jun Akiba
5. 'Corruption' and the Misuse of Waqf Funds
Suraiya Faroqhi
6. Valued but not Marketed: Revisiting the 'Sale of Public Offices' in the Ottoman Empire
Yasin Arslantaş
Part III. Corruption in the Tanzimat Era and Afterward
7. Codification Movements and Problematisation of Corruption in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Governance
Safa Saraçoğlu
8. Invention of Corruption: The 1840 Penal Code, Power, and Bureaucracy
Cengiz Kırlı
9. Corruption and Construction: The Stained History of the Building Council
Eda Güçlü
10. 'The Work of Inspection Cannot be Freed of Confusions and Amalgamations': Purity, Danger and the Practice of Late Ottoman Statecraft
Marc Aymes
Part IV. Comparative Reflections
11. Reconsidering Administrative Networks of Taxation, Legal Execution and Bribery from the Mamluk to the Ottoman Period: A Comparative Historical Perspective
Toru Miura
12. Ottoman Corruption: The View from Qing China
Elif Akcetin
13. Afterword: The Ottomans in European and Other Contexts
Joanna Innes
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