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Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history
Breaching the Bronze Wall deals with the idea that the words of
honorable Muslims constitutes proof and that written documents and
the words of non-Muslims are of inferior value. Thus, foreign
merchants in cities such as Istanbul, Damascus or Alexandria could
barely prove any claim, as neither their contracts nor their words
were of any value if countered by Muslims. Francisco Apellaniz
explores how both groups labored to overcome the 'biases against
non-Muslims' in Mamluk Egypt's and Syria's courts and markets
(14th-15th c.) and how the Ottoman conquest (1517) imposed a new,
orthodox view on the problem. The book slips into the Middle
Eastern archive and the Ottoman Divan, and scrutinizes shari'a's
intricacies and their handling by consuls, dragomans, qadis and
other legal actors.
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