Law, Empire, and the Sultan

This book is the first study of late Hanafism in the early modern Ottoman Empire. It examines Ottoman imperial authority in authoritative Hanafi legal works from the Ottoman world of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries CE, casting new light on the understudied late Hanafi jurists (al-muta''akhkhirun). By taking the madhhab and its juristic discourse as the central focus and introducing "late Han...