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Dritan Egro
Ottoman LAW AMONG THE LATE
MEDIEVAL ALBANIANS
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To recognize a political formation and then to analyze it,
inevitably, one must know the law, and must analyze the mechanism
that raised and managed it; in other words, it should be recognized
the legal product has has emerged from its chancellor, which, in
all cases turns out to be more than this, even more than a historical
document that photographs only a certain segment of time.
In this context, the recognition of the Ottoman law, which
dominated relatively long in Albanian territories, today is more
than necessary. Only by getting familiar with it we may judge
about the nature of the Ottoman state and Ottoman rule in general,
as well as of the features of this rule in the Balkans as a whole
and the Ottoman policy followed in Albanian areas in particular.
This edition of critical literal translation serves precisely to
this perception about the history of the Ottoman Empire, the
knowledge of the history of its law and its institutions.
Even early the codes of Ottoman law have been to the
attention of the author of this book for the complexity of the
information that they provide, and even to get to know more
closely with them, the author has conducted a study, which
has not yet been published. But the more he penetrated into
the original information that only this type of document can
provide, the more the author had the desire to present it to the
general Albanian public and especially to the qualified readers.
While today this volume with Ottoman codes is published
in Albanian, it remains the obligation of the author to
conclude that the study began more than a decade ago, so
to give the readers a complete overview of the Ottoman
code analysis, just as in time plane and in the spatial one.
Some of the headings and subheadings of the contents of this
book, with which the reader will get acquainted during reading