TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schull, Kent F.
AB  - Contrary to the stereotypical images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual behaviour traditionally associated with Ottoman (or ‘Turkish’) prisons, Kent F. Schull argues that these places were sites of immense reform and contestation during the 19th century. He shows that they were key components for Ottoman nation-state construction and acted as 'microcosms of modernity' for broader imperial transformation. It was within the walls of these prisons that many of the pressing questions of Ottoman modernity were worked out, such as administrative centralisation, the rationalisation of Islamic criminal law and punishment, issues of gender and childhood, prisoner rehabilitation, bureaucratic professionalisation, identity and social engineering. Juxtaposing state-mandated reform with the reality of prison life, the author investigates how these reforms affected the lives of local prison officials and inmates.
DO  - 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641734.001.0001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 642717
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 881416142
KW  - History
KW  - civilisation
KW  - penal reform
KW  - Ottoman Empire
KW  - Ottoman prisons
KW  - Turkish prisons
KW  - Middle East history
KW  - defensive modernisation
KW  - Istanbul
KW  - Sharia
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/eb751933-d56a-4332-a1ef-fa5281d0a378/642717.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30785
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
PY  - 2014-04-11
SN  - 9780748677696
TI  - Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire : Microcosms of Modernity
ER  - 
