Harput Shar'iyyah Record dated A.H. 1122-1124/A.D. 1710-1712 and numbered 388 (p.1-90) (Transcription and evaluation)

This study includes the transcription and evaluation of the Sharia Registry of Harput District dated A.H.1122-1124/A.D. 1710-1712 (p.1-90). In the study after giving information about the institution of kadi, sharia courts and sharia registers in the Ottoman Empire, respectively the documents in the aforementioned register were summarized, and their classification and general evaluation were made according to their subjects. Afterwards, the transcription text is included. Administrative appointments, documents related to destinations, taxes, purchases and sales, debt inheritance issues, property cases, guardianship, proxy appointment, marriage, theft, assault, death events, religion change, banditry in the Harput Shariah registry we examined etc. There are documents related to subjects and under these titles, some determinations have been made about the political, economic and social situation of the Harput sanjak in the dates that are the subject of the examination. The period when the record was prepared coincides with the Prut War between the Ottomans and Russia and after this war the Prut Treaty was signed in 1711. In this period the sultan of the Ottoman Empire was Ahmed III. Key Words: Ottoman Empire, Kadi, Court, Shar'iyyah Record, Harput.