Kadiluk
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Akadiluk(Ottoman Turkish:قاضیـلق,kadıluk) was thejurisdictionof akadi,[1]anIslamicjudge under theOttoman Empire.They typically consisted of a major city and its surrounding villages, although some kadis occupied other positions within the imperial administration.[2]
Legal issues
[edit]Kadis oversaw administration of imperial justice, which was particularly important for maintaining order and local control over thesipahisgranted fiefs (timar) during the early Ottoman expansion.[citation needed]
Kazas
[edit]Within theimperial administration,kadiluks also initially functioned as thekazas,the main subdivisions of thesanjaks,[3]with the kadi overseeing his district'staxationandmilitary conscription.[4][5]These functions were eventually handed over to a separate official called thekaymakam,and the empire's kazas were fully distinguished from its kadiluks in 1864 as part of theTanzimatreforms.[3]
See also
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[edit]Citations
[edit]- ^Katz (2012),p.264.
- ^Hickok, Michael Robert (1997).Ottoman military administration in eighteenth-century Bosnia.Brill. p. 54.ISBN978-90-04-10689-5.
- ^abMalcolm, Noel(1994).Bosnia: A Short History.Macmillan. p. 50.ISBN978-0-330-41244-5.
- ^Malcolm, Noel(1998).Kosovo: A Short History.Macmillan. pp. 98–99.ISBN978-0-330-41224-7.
- ^Ginio, Eyal."Neither Muslims nor Zimmis: The Gypsies (Roma) in the Ottoman State"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 23 November 2009.Retrieved21 August2010."These records mirror the diversity of the kadi's responsibilities in the Ottoman city"
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