Kent F. Schull is Associate Professor of Ottoman and Modern Middle East History at Binghamton University, SUNY. He is author of Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity and coeditor (with Christine Isom-Verhaaren) of Living in the Ottoman Realm: Empire and Identity, Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries.

1 The Editors: Introduction2 Timothy Fitzgerald: Reaching the Flocks: Literacy and the Mass Reception of Ottoman Law in the Sixteenth-Century Arab World3 Hadi Hosainy: Ottoman Legal Practice and Non-Judicial Actors in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul4 Michael Nizri: Defining Village Boundaries at the Time of the Introduction of the Malikane System: The Struggle of the Ottoman State for Reaffirming Ownership of the Land5 M. Safa Saraçölu: Economic Interventionism, Islamic Law and Provincial Government in the Ottoman Empire6 Kenneth M. Cuno: Reorganization of the Sharia Courts of Egypt: How Legal Modernization Set Back Women's Rights in the Nineteenth Century7 Nora Barakat: Regulating Land Rights in Late Nineteenth-Century Salt: The Limits of Legal Pluralism in Ottoman Property Law8 Samy Ayoub: The Mecelle, Sharia, and the Ottoman State: Fashioning and Refashioning of Islamic Law in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries9 Kenty F. Schull: Criminal Codes, Crime, and the Transformation of Punishment in the Late Ottoman Empire10 Ellinor Morack: Refugees, Locals, and "The" State: Property Compensation in the Province of Izmir Following the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 192311 Index