The Ottoman Civil Code (Mejelle) in Ottoman TurkishThe Ottoman Civil Code (Code Civil Ottoman) in French published by Demetrius NicolaidesAhmed Cevdet Pasha (1822–1895), the lead author of the Mejelle
The Mecelle-i Ahkâm-ı Adliye (Ottoman Turkish: مجلۀ احكام عدلیە), or the Mecelle in short, was the civil code of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th century. It is the first codification of Sharia law by an Islamic nation.[1][2]
^"Mecelle" in Oxford Islamic Studies Online
^Abdal Hakim Murad, "Authority within Islam", halalmonk.com, 2013.
The Mecelle-i Ahkâm-ı Adliye (Ottoman Turkish: مجلۀ احكام عدلیە), or the Mecelle in short, was the civil code of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and...
in the Tanzimat reforms of the Ottoman Empire. He was the head of the Mecelle commission that codified Islamic law for the first time in response to...
extended to the local magistrate level with the final promulgation of the Mecelle, a civil code that regulated marriage, divorce, alimony, will, and other...
first time partially codified into law in 1869 in the Ottoman Empire's Mecelle code. The Ottoman Empire disintegrated after World War I, the Ottoman Caliphate...
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historical influences on modern-day Israeli law are varied and include the Mecelle (Hebrew: מג'לה; the civil code of the Ottoman Empire) and German civil...
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of civil law and procedure (excepting marriage and divorce), called the Mecelle, was produced for use in both Sharia and secular courts. It adopted the...
throughout the Muslim world in a non-codified form, with the Ottoman Empire's Mecelle code in the 19th century being a first attempt at codifying elements of...
Law (Vilayet Kanunnamesi), the Ottoman Code of Public Laws (Düstur), the Mecelle, and the Ottoman Constitution of 1876. Throughout the empire's history...
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that the capital and its benefit be common between two or more persons", (Mecelle) "An agreement between two or more persons to carry out a particular business...
kind in the Ottoman Empire. He also was one of two translators of the Mecelle to its Greek version, Nomikoi kanones ētoi Astykos Kōdēx (Νομικοί κανόνες...
administered under the Ottoman Ministry of Justice. Although secular, the Mecelle (the Ottoman version of codified Sharia) was eventually applied to the...
the Ottoman rulers. Sharia was codified into law (which was called the Mecelle) and an elected legislature was established to make law. These steps took...
contract is made in order to secure a financial liability. According to Mecelle, rahn is "to make a property a security in respect of a right of claim...
tou Genous scholē). He, with Konstantinos Photiades, co-translated the Mecelle into Greek, and he also wrote his commentary on the Ottoman Commercial...
extended to the local magistrate level with the final promulgation of the Mecelle, a code of Islamic law covering all areas of civil law and procedure except...
past, the Taliban written policy has instructed judiciary to consult the Mecelle, a late Ottoman codification of Hanafi Mu'amalat, in matters of civil law...
the main Christian churches. Similarly Ottoman law, in the form of the Mecelle, for a long time remained the basis of large parts of Israeli law, for...
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