Margins of Legibility: Social Exclusion, Symbolic Regulation, and Negotiated Justice in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Bursa

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dc.contributor.authorYasa, Firat
dc.contributor.authorBaglama, Sercan Hamza
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-03T12:02:21Z
dc.date.available2026-02-03T12:02:21Z
dc.date.issued2026
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the socio-legal construction of a marginal figure known as Cinci Arab, whose actions sparked judicial and communal controversy in 1641 Bursa. Drawing systematically on three archival documents-a lawsuit, an imperial decree, and an amicable settlement-this study employs a microhistorical approach to interrogate the interplay between local and imperial authorities and explores how selective visibility, reputational ambiguity, and mediated justice were strategically employed to manage social anxieties. Rather than aiming for empirical clarity, the analysis reveals how Ottoman governance frequently operated through symbolic regulation, classification, and negotiated resolution, highlighting the discursive mechanisms by which individuals were rendered legible or obscure. The case of Cinci Arab thus serves as a critical prism, which demonstrates that archival documents did not function as neutral repositories of truth but as sites where imperial authority was performatively inscribed through structured ambiguity and selective preservation. The findings and analyses presented in the article are grounded in a detailed textual and contextual examination of three entries, each situated within distinct sections of the Bursa qadi court register no. B 113.
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/jsh/shaf110
dc.identifier.issn0022-4529
dc.identifier.issn1527-1897
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shaf110
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/34705
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001660874400001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOxford Univ Press Inc
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Social History
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_WOS_20260130
dc.subjectCourt
dc.titleMargins of Legibility: Social Exclusion, Symbolic Regulation, and Negotiated Justice in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Bursa
dc.typeArticle

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