Family law in the context of Karachelebizaadeh Abd al-Azeez Efendi's Fatâwâ

This thesis covers the family law sections of (Fetāwā-yi Karachelebızaadeh) the work of Karachelebızaadeh Abd al-Azeez Efendi, a scholar, mufti, and historian of his time who lived in the geography where the Ottoman Empire ruled in the 17th century and served as a mudarris, qadi, qadi 'asker, and shaykh al-islam of the state in different times. This book is in the genre of works in which fatwas are collected. It also includes the transcription of the chapters of 'Fetâwâ-yi Karaçelebizâde' on marriage and divorce and explanations of these issues. In addition, the author's life, academic and natural personality, his works, the institution of Islamic fatwa, the Ottoman legal order and Islamic family law are also discussed. Our aim is to introduce the work titled 'Fetâvâ-yı Karachelebızaadeh', which is waiting to be researched among the fatwas of Sheikhülislam, which has a very valuable place in history.In particular, we wanted to examine the marriage and divorce issues of this work, which include family law issues in detail and present them to today's researchers. Because the family issue is a core of Islamic history and culture. We want to reach many useful conclusions and add important values to our literature by examining the family structure and the Ottoman legal system described in the fatwas of Karachelebızaadeh, an important individual of the Ottoman Empire, one of the leading states of Turkish and Islamic civilisation, during the periods when he was shaykh al-islam. While researching this information and conclusions, the original manuscript of the fatwa was used. The reason of this is that a second copy of the manuscript could not be found. In addition to this method, books of fiqh, which have a great value in history, respected history books and all kinds of works such as books, theses, articles, academic journals and encyclopaedia articles that we consider relevant to our subject were also used. In addition to this method we followed in our study, the numerical analysis of the book and the information we obtained from its content, together with the information we obtained from the transcription of marriage and divorce issues, also enlightened our study. This thesis has been conducted by evaluating the author's bibliographical information in the historical context of his time and the relevant parts of the work in the context of Islamic family law.