Law as Metaphor: From Islamic Courts to the Palace of Justice

By June Starr and Starr

This book explains the growth of secular law in a Middle East nation, revealing it to be the product of elite competition over control of the state, a competition the secular elites won in Turkey when Ataturk set up the new Republic. The author demonstrates the great extent to which secularism dominates the discourse of Turkish conflict resolution by the mid-1960s. Her work exemplifies the uses of empirical field research set within a historical context.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791407829
• ISBN13: 9780791407820
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher