Bir Kanun Olarak Modernlik: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve Küresel Kanunlaştırma Hareketi

Abstract

Kanunlaştırma, 1840'lı yıllardan Osmanlı'nın çöküşüne kadar imparatorluğun hukuk reformunun kurucu bir özelliği olmuştur. Bu makale Osmanlı kanunlaştırma hareketini, "uzun on dokuzuncu yüzyıl" boyunca ulusötesi ortak hukuk tasavvuru için zemin hazırlayan küresel kanunlaştırma ivmesi bağlamında konumlandırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Küreyerelleşme (yerel özellikleri koruyarak küreselleşme, glokalleşme) perspektifinden bakıldığında Tanzimat dönemi Osmanlı kanunları, başka ülkelerdeki gibi sosyo-hukukî alanda modernliğin temel göstergeleri olarak öne çıkmaktadır.

Keywords

• Osmanlı İmparatorluğu
• Kanunlaştırma
• Modernlik
• Hukuki şekilcilik
• Mecelle
• Osmanlı hukuk kültürü

Modernity as a Code: The Ottoman Empire and the Global Movement of Codification

Abstract

Codification was a founding feature of Ottoman legal reform from the 1840s until the demise of the empire. This article seeks to situate the Ottoman project of codification in the context of the global codification momentum, which set the ground for a transnational common imagination of the law during the "long nineteenth century". When analyzed from the perspective of glocalization, Ottoman codes, much like codes elsewhere, stand out as essential signifiers of modernity in the socio-legal sphere.

Keywords

• Ottoman Empire
• Codification
• Modernity
• Legal formalism
• Mecelle
• Ottoman legal culture

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