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Journal Article
DEATH IN THE HIPPODROME: SEXUAL POLITICS AND LEGAL CULTURE IN THE REIGN OF MEHMET IV
2011
Overview
On 28 June 1680, people crowded into Istanbul's Hippodrome, the city's main public space, to stone to death a Muslim woman for adultery with an infidel, and to witness the beheading of the Jew who was held to be her lover. The Sultan Mehmet IV (reigned 1648-87), who attended the double execution in person, was the only sultan to order an adulteress to be executed by stoning during 465 years of Ottoman rule in Istanbul, and it is difficult to find any other examples of Islamic rulers punishing transgressors of sexual norms in this way. This article argues that this case cannot serve as an illustration of the severity of Islamic punishment; rather than focusing on \"shariah\", the reasons for the executions need to be sought in Ottoman secular law and in Mehmet IV himself, who had a political motivation for stressing male authority over women, compelling Jews to convert to Islam, and lauding sultanic and Muslim virtue. (Quotes from original text)
Publisher
Oxford University Press,Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
Subject
/ Crime - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Culture
/ Death
/ Empires
/ Extramarital Relations - ethnology
/ Extramarital Relations - history
/ Extramarital Relations - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Extramarital Relations - psychology
/ History
/ Islam
/ Marriage - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Muslims
/ Palaces
/ Politics
/ Spouses - legislation & jurisprudence
/ Sufism
/ Turkey
