Introduction / Kent F. Schull & M. Safa Sarac̦oğlu
Reaching the flocks : literacy and the mass reception of Ottoman Law in the Sixteenth-century Arab World / Timothy J. Fitzgerald
Ottoman legal practice and non-judicial actors in Seventeenth-century Istanbul / Hadi Hosainy
Defining village boundaries at the time of the introduction of the Malikane system : the struggle of the Ottoman State for reaffirming ownership of the land / Michael Nizri
Economic interventionism, Islamic law and provincial government in the Ottoman empire / M. Safa Sarac̦oğlu
Reorganization of the Sharia courts of Egypt : how legal modernization set back women's rights in the Nineteenth century / Kenneth M. Cuno
Regulating land rights in late Nineteenth-century salt : the limits of legal pluralism in Ottoman Property Law / Nora Barakat
The Mecelle, Sharia, and the Ottoman State : fashioning and refashioning of Islamic Law in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries / Samy Ayoub
Criminal codes, crime and the transformation of punishment in the Late Ottoman Empire / Kent F. Schull
Refugees, locals and "The" State : property compensation in the Province of Izmir following the Greco-Turkish population exchange of 1923 / Ellinor Morack.