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During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the Ottoman Empire endured long periods of warfare; facing intense financial pressures and new international mercantile and monetary trends. The Empire also experienced major political-administrative restructuring and socioeconomic transformations. In the context of this tumultuous change; The Economics of Ottoman Justice examines Ottoman legal practices and the sharia court's operations to reflect on the judicial system and provincial relationships. Metin Coşgel and Boğaç Ergene provide a systematic depiction of socio-legal interactions; identifying how different social; economic; gender and religious groups used the court; how they settled their disputes; and which factors contributed to their success at trial. Using an economic approach; Coşgel and Ergene offer rare insights into the role of power differences in judicial interactions; and into the reproduction of communal hierarchies in court; and demonstrate how court use patterns changed over time.