Eugenia Kermeli
Publications
BOOKS:
E. Kermeli, K. Fleet, The economic and social transformation of a newly conquered ottoman territory:
Ottoman Crete 1650-1750, to be published by Türk Tarih Kurumu in 2007
EDITED BOOKS:
R. Gleave, E. Kermeli, Islamic Law: Theory and Practice, I. B. Tauris, 1997 (First edition)/ 2001
(paperback).
E. Kermeli, O. Özel, The Ottoman Empire: Myths, realities and ‘Black Holes’ In Honor of Colin Imber,
The Isis Press, 2006.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS:
"Vakfs Made Out of Shares in Ships: Huccets from the Saint John the Theologian Monastery in Patmos,"
The Kapudan Pasha and His Domain, E. Zachariadou, (Eds.), Univ. Crete Publications, June 2002.
"Ebu's Su`ud's definitions on church vakfs: Theory and Practice in Ottoman Law", Islamic Law Theory
and Practice, R. Gleave, E. Kermeli (eds.), I. B. Tauris, London, 1997.
“Debt and Credit in the Ottoman Empire: the case of Ottoman Crete”, Pestare ai poveri. Il credito su
pegno e I Monti di Pieta in area Mediterranea (secoli XV-XIX) Napoli, 2007.
“Children treated as Commodity in Ottoman Crete”, The Ottoman Empire: Myths, Realities and ‘Black
Holes’, The Isis Press, Istanbul, 2006.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
"Sin and the sinner: folles femmes in Ottoman Crete", Eurasian Studies, v.1, pp. 29-43, 2002.
"The Confiscation and Repossession of Monastic Properties in Mount Athos and Patmos Monasteries,
1568-1570," Bulgarian Historical Review, vol. 28/3-4 2000, pp. 39-53.
“The right to choice: Ottoman Justice vis-à-vis ecclesiastical and communal justice in the Balkans, 17h19th centuries”, Journal of Semitic Studies, October 2007.
“Central Administration versus Provincial Arbitrary: Patmos and Mount Athos Monasteries in the 16 th
century”, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , March 2008.
BOOK REVIEWS:
"Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and Their Fatwas," by M. Masud, B. Messick, D. Powers (eds),
Harvard Univ. Press, 431 pp, 1996, in Journal of Law and Religion, 2001.
"Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean," by M. Greene, Princeton Univ. Press, 228
pp., 2000, in Bulletin of School of Oriental & African Studies, 2001.
"European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State," by K. Fleet, Cambridge Univ. Press, 204 pp.,
1999, in Bulletin of School of Oriental & African Studies, pp.289-290, 2000.
REVIEW ARTICLE:
"The development of Ottoman Legal Studies", Eurasian Studies, v.1, pp. 278-301, 2002.
ENTRIES IN ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
“Byzantine Empire and the Ottomans” in Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire edited by Gabor Agoston,
Bruce Masters, New York, October 2007.
“Osman” in Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire edited by Gabor Agoston, Bruce Masters, New York,
October 2007.
“Orhan” in Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire edited by Gabor Agoston, Bruce Masters, New York,
October 2007.
Works in progress
Parallel Systems of Justice in the Ottoman Empire, a book I have been working on for two years now.
“Lost in Translation: The Greek Translations of Ottoman Firmans” to be submitted to the Modern Greek
Studies.
“The Iltizam Contract in the fetvas of ottoman şeyhülislams” to be submitted to Islamic law and Society.
“Ottoman experimentation on the Land system introduced in Crete” to be submitted to IJMES.
Book reviews of my work
1/ Arlene T. McCarthy, book review of my book Islamic Law: Theory and Practice I.B.Tauris, 1997, in
Law and Politics Book Review, v.9 n.5, May 1999, pp.217-220.
2/ Susan Spectrosky, book review of my book Islamic Law: Theory and Practice, I.B.Tauris, 1997, in
Islamic Law and Society, v. 3, n. 3, 1999, pp. 412-16.
3/ Jonathan Brockopp, book review of my book Islamic Law: Theory and Practice. I.B.Tauris, 1997, in
Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 15, No. 1/2 (2000 - 2001), pp. 200-1.
4/ Adam Sabra, book review of my book Islamic Law: Theory and Practice, I.B.Tauris, 1997 in Middle
East Studies Association Bulletin, v. 32, n.2, 2000.
5/ Fred Rhodes, book review of my book Islamic Law: Theory and Practice, I.B.Tauris, 2001
(paperback), in The Middle East, June 2001.
6/ Hussein Hasan, book review of my book Islamic Law: Theory and Practice, I.B.Tauris, 1997, in
Journal of Islamic Studies, 13.1, 2002, pp. 50-51.
7/ Charles O. Prince, book review of my book Islamic Law: Theory and Practice, I.B.Tauris, 2001
(paperback), in International Law and Politics, v. 34, August 2002, pp. 483-484.
8/ Hocine Benkheira, book review of my book Islamic Law: Theory and Practice, I.B.Tauris, 2001
(paperback), in Studia Islamica, n. 94, 2002, pp. 202-203.
Citation to scholarly work
1/ Robert Gleave, “Marrying Fatimid Women: Legal Theory and Substantive Law in Shii Jurisprudence”,
Islamic Law and Society, v. 6, n. 1, 1999, 41-42.
2/ D. Serrano, “Legal Practice in an Andalusi- Maghribi source from the twelfth century: The Madhahib
al-Hukkam fi Nawazil al-ahkam”, Islamic Law and Society, 2000, v.7 n.2,
3/ Robert Gleave, Inevitable Doubt: Two theories of Shi`i Jurisprudence, Brill 2000, p.255
4/ DS Ruano, “Spanish research on Islamic law, 1990-1999”, Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 15, No.
1/2 (2000 - 2001), pp. 334-35.
5/ Eyal Ginio, “’Every Soul shall Taste Death’: Dealing with Death and the Afterlife in EighteenthCentury Ottoman Salonica”, Studia Islamica 2001, n. 93, p. 116.
6/ N. Vatin, “Note Preliminaire au Catalogage du Fonds Ottoman des Archives du Monastere de SaintJean a Patmos”, Turcica, v. 33, 2001, pp. 333-338.
7/ Elizabeth Zachariadou, “Monks and Sailors under the Ottoman Sultans” The Ottomans and the Sea,
Oriente Moderno, v. 19, n.1, 2001, p.141.
8/ Amy Singer, Constructing Ottoman Beneficence: An Imperial Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem, Suny Series
in Near eastern Studies, 2002, Albany, pp. 174, 218.
9/ Edward R. McMahon, Thomas Sinclair (eds.), Democratic Institution Performance: Research and
Policy Perspectives, Praeger Publishers, 2002, pp. 74, 242.
10/ Sinclair, Democratic Institution Performance: Research and Policy Perspectives, Greenwood, 2002,
p. 74.
11/ Bernard Weiss, Studies in Islamic Legal Theory, Brill 2002, p. 13.
12/ Manuela Marin, Randi Deguilhem, Writing the Feminine: Women in Arab Sources, I.B.Tauris 2002,
p.265.
13/ Ofried Weintritt, Familie im Islam, Dr Europäische Sonderweg. Ein Projekt der Breuninger Stiftung,
Stuttgart 2002, p. 53
14/ Hoda Rouhana, “Practices in the Shari’a Court of Appeal in Israel; Gendered Reading of Arbitration
Decisions”, WLUML Dossier 25, 2003, p. 16
15/ Brannon N. Wheeler (ed.), Teaching Islam, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 92.
16/ Jonathan E. Brockopp, Islamic Ethics of Life: Abortion, War and Euthanasia, University of South
Carolina Press, 2003, pp. 19, 230.
17/ Lasia Bloś, H.H. Weiler, European Law of Religion-organizational and institutional analysis of
national systems and their implications for the future European Integration Process, Jean Monnet
Working Paper, 13/03 2003, pp. 69, 73.
18/ Paul L. Heck, “Jihad Revisited”, Journal of Religious Ethics, 32.1, 2004, p. 127.
19/ Nazila Ghanea, “Human Rights of Religious Minorities and the Women in the Middle East”, Human
Rights Quarterly, 26, 2004, p. 723
20/ Atsuyuki Okabe, Islamic Area Studies with Geographical Information Systems, Routledge 2004,
p.205.
21/ M. Macit Kenanoğlu, Osmanlı Millet Sistemş Mit ve Gerçek, Klasik 2004, p.84, 409.
22/ Sayed Mohammad Ghari Seyed Fatemi, “Who is a Refure? Comparison of a Misconstrued concept in
International Human Rights, Shi’i Fiqh and the Iranian Legal System” The International Journal of
Human Rights, 9/2, June 2005.
23/ Pehlul Duzenli, “Şeyhülislam Ebussuud Efendi Bibliografik bir değerlendirme” Türk Hukuk Tarihi,
Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi, v. 3 n. 5, 2005, p.473.
24/ Hoda Rouhana, “Muslim Family Laws in Israel: The Role of the State and the citizenship of
Palestinian Women”, WLUML Dossier 27, 2005, p. 11
25/ Tahsin Özcan, “Osmanlı Vakıf Hukuku Çalışmaları” Türk Hukuk Tarihi, Türkiye Araştırmaları
Literatür Dergisi, v. 3 n. 5, 2005, p. 546
26/ Kiyotaki Keiko, Colin Imber, Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: v.1 State, Province and the West, I.B.
Tauris 2005, pp. 72, 73, 208.
27/ Seyyed Mohammad Ghari Seyed Fatemi, “Whis is a Refuge? Comparison of a Misconstrued Concept
in international Human Eights, Shi`i Fiqh and the Iranian Legal System”, International Journal of Human
Rights, v. o, no. 2, 183-223, June 2005.
28/ Knut S. Vikor, Between God and the Sultan: A history of Islamic Law, Hurst 2005, p. 322.
29/ Nicolas P. Agnides, Islamic Theories of Finance: With an Introduction to Islamic Law and a
Bibliography, Gorgias Press, 2005, p. 4.
30/ Suad Yosef and Afsaneh Najmabadi, Encyclopaedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Brill 2005, p.
364.
31/ Werner F. Menski, Comparative Law in a Global Context: Research and Policy Perspectives,
Cambridge University Press 2006, pp. 310 and 638.
32/ Hakim Abdul I. Al-Matroudi, The Hanbali School of Law and Ibn Taymiyyah: conflict or
conciliation, Routledge 2006, p. 272
33/ Evangelia Balta, “Turkish Archival Material in Greek Historiography”, Uluslararası Türk Arşiv
Malzemesi, Istanbul 2006, p. 24.
34/ Christian Moe, "Strasbourg's Construction of Islam: A Critique of the Refah Judgment." In: Islam in
Europe: Emerging Legal Issues, ed. W. Cole Durham. Leuwen: Peeters forthcoming, p.13
35/ Aharon Layish, “Adaptation of a jurist’s law to modern times in an alien environment: the case of the
shari`a in Israel”, Die Welt des Islams, v.46/2, July 2006.
36/ Moussa Abou Ramadan, “Divorce reform in the Shari`s Courts of Appeals in Israel (1992-2003)”,
Islamic Law and Society, v.13/2, April 2006.
37/ Moussa Abou Ramadan, “Islamic legal reform: Shari`a court of appeals and maintenance for Muslim
wives in Israel”, Hawwa, v.4/1, May 2006.
38/ Attiya Waris, “Making a mountain out of a molehill: The protection of the right to the freedom of
religion of the Muslim regious minority in Kenya’s constitution”, International Journal on Minority and
Group Rights, v.14/1, March 2007.
39/ David L. Johnston, “Maqasid al-shari`a: Epistemology and hermeneutics of Muslim theologies of
human rights”, Die Welt des Islams, v.47/2, June 2007.
40/ Ridwanul Hoque and Morshed Mahmud Khan, “Judicial activism and Islamic family law: A
sociolegal evaluation of recent trends in Bangladesh”, Islamic Law and Society, v.14/2, July 2007.
41/ O. Cohen, “Predictors of Adjustment to Divorce of Palestinian Israelis: Shari`a Court Procedure and
Outcome”, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2007.
My Islamic Law: Theory and Practice book is used as coursebook at Hartford Seminar, Emory
University, University of London, Columbia University, Cardiff University, Univerity of Leeds,
University of Queensland, and Univerity of Porto.
Conferences
Organised:
International Conference on Islamic Law: Theory and Practice, Manchester, 15-19 June 1995.
Participated:
“Ebu’s Su’ud’s Definition on Church Vakfs: Theory and Practice” 2nd Joseph Schacht Conference,
December 16-20, 1997, Granada, Spain.
“The function of Christian religious endowments”, 13th CIEPO Symposium, Vienna, September 1998
“Custom Versus Theory: Ebu's Su'ud’s Effort to Consolidate Shariah with the Ottoman Kanun on Land
and Its Impact on Crete”, Beyond the Border: A New Framework for Understanding the Dynamism of
Muslim Societies, 10.8-10.1999, Kyoto, Japan.
“Some questions on the Land System introduced in Crete by the Ottomans”, The Ottoman Frontier, The
Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, 17-20 March 1999, Cambridge.
“Prostitution and Law in the 17th and 18th century Crete”, Annual BRISMES Conference, Centre of
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Cambridge University, 2-5 July 2000.
“Vakfs consisting of shares in ships:hüccets from the Saint John the Theologos Monastery on Patmos”,
The Kapudan Pasha. His Office and His Domain, University of Crete, January 2000.
“Post-mortem examinations and surgical operations in Ottoman Crete”, International Conference on
Medical Ethics and Medical Law in Islam, 18-21 March 2001, Haifa University.
“The Legal Aspect of the Iltizam Contract”, Ottomans and the Trade, Skilliter Centre for Ottoman
Studies, 20-23 March 2002.
“Turkish Historiography on the Ottoman Occupation of the Morea, 1460-1685”, From the Despotate to
the Regno: the Morea 1460-1685, Monembasia, Greece, 5-7 July 2003.
“Debt and Credit in the Ottoman Empire: the case of Crete”, The Bank of the Poor: The credit upon
pledge and the Monti di Pieta in the Mediterranean Countries, XVth-XIXth centuries, Naples, 24-25
September 2004.
“Ottoman experimentation on land and its Taxation in Crete”, La Sublime Porta e l’egemonia del
Meditettaneo tra Stati e Imperi, 10th International Congress of Economic and Social History of Turkey, 28
September-1 October, Venice.
“In Pursuit of Justice: Non-Muslims in the Court of Rethymnon”, Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean,
1645-1840, Rethymnon, 13-15 January 2006.
“Sa`i bi’l fesad and Rebels in a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Court”, Fifth International Conference
on Islamic Legal Studies: Lawful and Unlawful Violence in Islamic Law and History, Islamic Legal
Studies Program, Harvard Law School, September 8-10, 2006
“The Right to Choice: Muslims and Non-Muslims in the Kadi, Ecclesiastical and Communal Courts”,
17th CIEPO Symposium, Trabzon, 18-32 September 2006.
“Marriage and Divorce for Christians and New Muslims in Crete, 1645-1670”, The Fourth Conference
of the European Network, Gender Differences in European Legal Cultures, 21-23 September 2006, The
Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete and the Institute of Mediterranean Studies.