La coexistence de deux espaces juridiques dans l’Empire ottoman (xve-xvie siècles)

Abstract

The Ottoman political power recognized and accepted the legal system that was traditionally implemented in the administration of the Orthodox Church and the rules that governed the Christians’ family and hereditary matters. Therefore, large parts of the Byzantine law stood within in the Ottoman legality. A study of Ottoman and Greek legal sources from the Fall of Constantinople to the end of 16th century, reveal the complex interactions between these two legal systems the problems created by the use of legal rules that were initially formed in the Byzantine Empireto regulate various issues in the political structure of the Ottoman Empire that was based upon a different faith.