Mecelle

Title page of the Mecelle in Ottoman Turkish
Title page of the Mecelle in French (Code civil ottoman), published by Demetrius Nicolaides
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha (1822–1895), the lead author of the Mecelle

The Mecelle was the civil code of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th century. It is the first codification of Sharia law by an Islamic nation.

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