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Note continued: part II Unpacking Law and Culture -- 4.Where Have All the People Gone? A Critique of Medieval Islamic Historiography / Nimrod Hurvitz -- 4.1.Introduction: The Lacuna -- 4.2.Historiography of the Shi'a -- 4.3.Historiography of the Madhahib -- 4.4.Concluding Remarks -- 5.According to His Exalted Kanun: Contending Visions of the Muftiship in the Ottoman Province of Damascus (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) / Guy Burak -- 5.1.I -- 5.2.II -- 5.3.III -- 5.4.IV -- 5.5.V -- 6.The Slave, the Governor, and the Judge: An Ottoman Socio-Legal Drama from the Late Nineteenth Century / Avi Rubin -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.New Courts -- 6.3.The Trial of Ali Esref Efendi -- 6.3.1.The Charges -- 6.3.2.Slavery and Abolition -- 6.3.3.Bezmihal -- 6.3.4.A Compassionate Judge -- 6.3.5.Governor Emin Bey -- 6.3.6.Court Investigation -- 6.3.7.Decision -- 6.4.Legal Formalism and Accountability -- 6.5.Conclusion

Note continued: 7.The Policeman and State Policy: Police Accountability, Civilian Entitlements, and Ottoman Modernism, 1840 -- 1860s / Omri Paz -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.1.1.The Ottoman Police -- 7.2."Direct Access" -- 7.3.The "Nanny State" -- 7.4.Establishment of the Ottoman Police -- 7.5.Conclusion -- 8."At Approximately Eleven, Just Before Nightfall": An Introduction to Ottoman Temporal Culture / Avner Wishnitzer -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2.Reading the Clock, Alaturka or: When is Eleven O'clock Anyway? -- 8.3.Synchronizing Clocks with the Heavens -- 8.4.When Night Falls -- 8.5.How Approximate is "Approximately?" -- 8.6.The Transformation of Ottoman Temporal Culture -- 8.7.Conclusion -- 9.How to Work on Social History in the Egyptian Archives: Some Thoughts / Liat Kozma -- 9.1.Death in Alexandria -- 9.2.Histories of Archival Texts -- 9.3.Historians in the Archives -- 9.4.Historicizing the Archives -- 9.5.An Israeli Historian in Cairo -- 9.6.Epilogue.

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