Feud, Law, and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Northern Albania.

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...

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Published in:Welt des Islams Vol. 63; no. 3; pp. 269 - 302
Main Author: Bayraktar, Uğur
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Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2023
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