Record group ŞS - Ottoman Court Records

23.692 defter
2.447.479 varak
3.496.413 sayfa

Şer'iyye Registers are the notebooks kept in the kadi courts of the Ottoman period. These registers, which contain the legal transactions of the society in the center and provinces of the Ottoman Empire, are an important source for research in the social, economic, legal, demographic and architectural fields of Ottoman history. They are considered primary sources for understanding the functions of local administration, the structure of cities and social order. Today, these registers provide researchers with the opportunity to go deeper into Ottoman history and conduct micro-level studies.
The content of the registers includes all kinds of records related to civil law such as legal disputes, inheritances, inheritance divisions, marriage and divorce, notarial transactions (purchase-sale, lease, donation, debt exchange, loan transactions), criminal cases, municipal activities and the price regulations, documents related to the disposal, construction and repair of foundations and/or public buildings, copies of provisions and edicts from the center, and social and economic issues of the society.
The earliest examples of Shar'iyye Registers in the Ottoman Empire belong to the court of Bursa. The first examples of the registers, dated 1455, were kept regularly until the beginning of the twentieth century, even though they went in to contraction in terms of the subjects they covered due to the establishment of new courts in the second half of the nineteenth century.
The ISAM Library Archive is the most comprehensive collection of qadi registers in the world, including those of Istanbul, Anatolia, the Balkans and some cities in the Middle East. The total number of registers is 23,770, and they can be examined digitally at the İSAM Library.

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