The Mecelle (also transliterated Mejelle, Majalla, Medjelle, or Meğelle, from the Ottoman Turkish, Mecelle-ʾi Aḥkām-ı ʿAdlīye - from Arabic مجلۀ احکام عدلیه Majallah el-Ahkam-i-Adliya) was the civil code of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was the first attempt to codify a part of the Sharia-ba...
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(from the article `Cevdet Paa, Ahmed`) ...provinces; and, finally, the post of minister of justice, in which position he supervised and was a driving force behind the official codification ...
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