Drinking crime and its punishment in Ottoman Sheriye records and Fatwa collections

Law rules have been necessary for centuries to enable people to live in society; every state has set a number of rules to provide for community regulation and has supported certain sanctions for compliance. Drinking is practically prohibited from the earliest times of Islam and discussed in detail in the doctrine of Islamic law. In this study, this issue, which has an important place in the Islamic Law doctrine, has been discussed and how fines imposed on drinking have been found in practice. For this purpose, sherries registering Which is as reflection of the social, cultural and legal life of the Ottoman society was used. In addition, to better analyze the conditions and life of the period, the Ottoman Empire's social life, political and legal understanding and views of the fatwa metaphors exhibiting with concrete examples has been one of our reference sources since it provides information transfer between the various layers of society and the past and the future. In addition to these sources, the works of the Ottoman period in the legal process were also referred to as works of semi-official law. In this way, we have had the opportunity to see the reflection of the law rules and punishments that we read in books for years. This study, due to the excess of sherries registering, was prepared based on some sherries records firstly Üsküdar then Hasköy and Eyüp regions in XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries The possible reasons for the differences between the punishments in given practice and the punishments imposed in the doctrine were investigated. The cases related to the subject are included in the thesis text, and in some cases in the footnote where deemed necessary