Başak Tuğ, Ph.D. (2009), New York University, is Assistant Professor at İstanbul Bilgi University. She has published articles on gender, sexuality and politics in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Maps and IllustrationsAbbreviationsIntroductionChapter 1Social and Legal Order in the Eighteenth CenturyJustice, Imperial Public Order, and Ottoman Politico-Judicial AuthorityOligarchic Rule and Local Notables in the Eighteenth CenturyThe Kanun as Legal Practice in the Eighteenth CenturyChapter 2Petitioning and Intervention: A Question of PowerThe Imperial Council and Petitions as a Reflection of Imperial Law in Legal PracticePetitionary (Ahkam) Registers and Socio-Legal SurveillanceReporting Sexual ViolenceActors, Strategies, and RhetoricPetitions as a Mirror of Local CleavagesChapter 3Banditry, Sexual Violence and HonorSexual Violence as a Sign of “Habitualness” to ViolenceSexual Violence, Honor and the Imperial StateChapter 4The Repertoire of Sexual Crimes in the CourtsWhy fi‛l-i şeni‛ (Indecent Act), but not zinaOther Expressions Used in the Registers to Describe Sexual AssaultsChapter 5The Penal Order of Eighteenth-Century AnatoliaThe Enigma of Crime and Punishment in the Court RecordsSocial and Institutional Limits to the Authority of Local JudgesUnder Whose Discretion was Sexual and Moral Order?In Lieu of Conclusion: Silence and Outcry in the RecordsConclusionBibliographyIndex