Islamic Law and Society Pub Date : 2020-08-14 , DOI: 10.1163/15685195-bja10004 Nir Shafir 1
In the seventeenth century, Ottoman jurists repeatedly tried to stop Muslims from stating that they “belonged to the religion of Abraham.” A century earlier, however, the expression had been a core part of the new confessional identity of the empire’s Muslims. This article explores how the phrase changed from an attestation of faith to a sign of heresy through a study of a short pamphlet by Minḳārīzāde Yaḥyā Efendi. Minḳārīzāde argued that the use of the phrase is not permissible and addressed his arguments not to learned scholars, but to the semi-educated. I argue that Minḳārīzāde’s pamphlet provides a glimpse into “vernacular legalism” in action in the Ottoman Empire, that is, how semi-educated audiences received and understood legal debates and subsequently turned law into a space of popular politics.
中文翻译:
奥斯曼帝国的白话法律主义:关于“亚伯拉罕的宗教”的辩论中的自白,法律和大众政治
在17世纪,奥斯曼帝国的法学家多次试图阻止穆斯林说“他们属于亚伯拉罕的宗教”。然而,一个世纪以前,这种表达方式已成为帝国穆斯林新悔身份的核心部分。本文通过研究MinḳārīzādeYaḥyāEfendi的一本简短小册子,探讨了该短语如何从信仰证明变为异端迹象。Minḳārīzāde争辩说,不允许使用该词组,他的论点不是针对学识渊博的学者,而是针对半受教育的学者。我认为,Minḳārīzāde的小册子提供了对奥斯曼帝国行动中的“白话法律主义”的一瞥,也就是说,受过半教育的观众如何接受和理解法律辩论,然后将法律转变为大众政治空间。