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Maurits van den Boogert
Maurits Hubrecht van den Boogert (born 1972) is a Dutch writer on Ottoman history from about 1700-1900. He studied Orientalism at Leiden University, obtaining his PhD in 2001, and was a researcher in Ottoman history at that institute. Provided by WikipediaThe Capitulations and the Ottoman Legal System : Qadis, Consuls and Beratlıs in the 18th Century /
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Pre-modern Western sources generally claim that European mercantile communities in the Ottoman Empire enjoyed legal autonomy, and were thus effectively immune to Ottoman justice. At the same time, they report numerous disputes with Ottoman officials over jurisdiction ("avanias"), which seems to contradict this claim, the discrepancy being considered proof of the capriciousness of the Ottoman legal system. Modern studies of Ottoman-European relations in this period have tended uncritically to accept this interpretation, which is challenged in this book.
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