Abstract:

Asım Cüneyd Köksal's work, Fiqh and Politics in the Ottomans, Siyâset-i Şer'iyye examines the relationship between fiqh and politics in the Ottoman Empire from the perspective of fiqh doctrine. The work criticizes the widespread acceptance in the Ottoman Empire that customary law is determinative and shar'i law is subject to custom, and that customary law functions in the field left open in the axis of the concept of tazir, although there are practices that seem contrary to the doctrine in practice, there is no contradiction between these two. argues that there is a complementarity relationship. In order to support the claim in question, the literature on the pre-Ottoman law-politics relationship, Ottoman law books and selected works from the Ottoman period were subjected to an in-depth analysis.