Gerber Haim. State, society, and law in Islam Ottoman law in comparative perspective

Albany: State University of New York, 1994. — 236 p.The Structure of the Ottoman Legal Process in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The Making of Ottoman Law: The Rise of the Kadi and the Shari'a Court
The Fetva in the Legal System
The Guilds and Customary Law
Patrimonialism and Bureaucracy in the Ottoman Political System
Summary and Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography