Transcription and evaluation of 424 number Siirt court registries

Sharia registry is the records of the decision of the courts of the Ottoman period. These registry are also called Kadi's record or Kadi's books. All kinds of issues could have been come to courts as a case. As well as documents containing the decisions of Kadi such as i'lam, hüccet, tereke, there were also documents sent from the center and a copy of these documents recorded Kadi. Therefore, the court records give us valuable information about the social, juridical, administrative and economic structure of period in which they were written. Because Sharia registries contain such comprehensive issues, they are used as first-hand sources both for the work of historians and in the fields such as law, economics, sociology and military 424 numbered sharia registry which is the subject of our study covers years 1870 and 1871 (H. 1286/1287/1288). There are more than thirty topics in this registry. Claim, debt, property sales, divorce, wounding, extortion, damages, intervention, tereke, and robbery are some of the issues included in the registry. These common cases have been examined under separate titles in our study. Important information has been optained from these cases recorded in the registry. In the light of these knowledge, evaluations have been made and significant results have been reached about social, economic and admnistrative structure of Siirt in the years 1870, 1871.