Legal Pluralism and the Codification of the Late Ottoman Empire: A Re-imagination of Imperial Political Authority and Legal Thought

我的研究项目旨在研究从十九世纪中期到二十世纪初后期奥斯曼帝国的法律和法律想象的转变。课程的重点将放在作为一个社会多元化帝国的古老治理模式的法律多元化与同时出现的全球法典化理念之间的紧张关系上，这种紧张关系在奥斯曼帝国晚期的法律话语中有所体现。这种对法律的重新想象涉及到固定以前多元和多中心的社会秩序形式的法律技术，以使复杂的本土社会实践对集中和扩张的奥斯曼帝国权威更“清晰”。将特别关注这种话语转变对各种法律行为者的社会影响及其在法律思想全球趋势框架内的背景化。

My research project aims to examine the transformations of law and legal imagination in the late Ottoman Empire from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. The focus will be on tensions, manifest in the late Ottoman imperial legal discourse, between legal pluralism as an ancient mode of governance for a socially diverse empire and the concurrent emerging global idea of codification. This re-imagination of law involved legal techniques of fixing formerly plural and polycentric forms of social ordering to make complex indigenous social practice more "legible" to a centralising and expanding Ottoman imperial authority. Particular attention will be paid to the social implications of this discursive shift for various legal actors and its contextualisation within the framework of global trends in legal thought.