While Islamic law has regulated the legal status of people according to several criteria such as religion, gender and freedom, the legal status of a non-Muslim woman living in an Islamic country is important because of combining two of them. Recently, a few studies have been written about the rights of non-Muslim women in Ottoman Empire and it is not known that which Islamic legal principles can be applied compulsorily or optionally to non-Muslim women by sharia courts. This study particularly aims to contribute to the literature in Ottoman law, -especially family law and property relations-, by presenting a theoretically and practically enlightened legal status of a non-Muslim woman. Based on Ottoman sharia court records, archival documents, fatwas, it concludes that non-Muslim women in Ottoman Empire had the right to demand justice without an inhibition
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Dergi Türü : Ulusal
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