RT Article
T1 Feud, Law, and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Northern Albania
JF Die Welt des Islams
VO 63
IS 3
SP 269
OP 301
A1 Bayraktar, Uğur
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1860833152
AB The present article investigates the kanun or Albanian “customary law”, with a particular focus on feuds in the town of Dibra. It explores a case of Ottoman legal pluralism in which the kanun and Ottoman law interacted, a major watershed in the development of Ottoman law. By shifting the perspective to the Albanian highlanders’ understanding of “law”, this paper sheds light on how a set of customary laws contributed to the making of the Tanzimat, which called for a standardised legal framework in the provinces. It examines the means the Ottoman government developed to eliminate feuds and demonstrates that the Tanzimat converged with the principles of Albanian customary law. Analysis of this interaction between the kanun and state law demonstrates how this process constituted one of the foundations of the modern Ottoman legal order in northern Albania.
K1 Albanian Studies
K1 Tanzimat
K1 feud
K1 Legal pluralism
K1 Customary law
K1 Ottoman Empire
DO 10.1163/15700607-20220009