Sacred Law in the Holy City : The Khedival Challenge to the Ottomans As Seen from Jerusalem, 1829-1841

By Judith Mendelsohn Rood

The Muslim community's political and socio-economic role in Jerusalem under Ottoman administration during the 1830s is analyzed in this volume from a natural law perspective. A bitter political contest between Sultan Mahmud II and Muhammad Ali Pasha resulted in the military occupation of Syria and imposition of a brutal new political and legal regime which crushed the indigenous elites of southern Syria. Through a careful analysis of the archives of the Islamic law court of Jerusalem, the study offers a fresh appraisal of how the Ottoman Empire ruled Jerusalem and considers the Muslim response, elucidating the reasons for the breakdown of their relations with non-Muslim Ottoman subjects and differentiating the Ottoman understanding of law and government from that of their enemies, the Wahhabis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004443185
• ISBN13: 9789004443181
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"