Permanent Seminar on Mercantile Economies, Societies and Cultures: “France, Western Merchants and Islamic Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean (late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century)” – Viorel Panaite
My story on Western merchants in the Ottoman Mediterranean has chronological, geographical and legal limits imposed by MS Turc 130 (BnF, Paris). This manuscript proves the necessity to legitimate the clauses of capitulations (ahdnames) by legal opinions (fetvas). MS Turc 130 illustrates also practical aspects of commercial diplomacy at the Ottoman Court, and reveals the […]