Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity

by Kent F. Schull

Contrary to the stereotypical images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual abuse traditionally associated with Ottoman or 'Turkish' prisons, Kent Schull argues that, during the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1918), they played a crucial role in attempts to transform the empire. It was within these prisons' walls that many of the pressing questions of Ottoman modernity were worked out; questions of administrative centralisation, Islamic criminal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474435726
• ISBN13: 9781474435727
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"