A Riot Against the Franciscans in the Holy Sepulchre Leads to a Firman More Favorable to the Greek Orthodox

The Ottoman-French capitulation expanded French legal and commercial privileges within the Ottoman Empire. It illustrates European influence before direct colonial rule in Palestine.

The treaty, which ends an Ottoman-Russian war in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus to the advantage of Russia, includes provisions on matters that were previously addressed in a Capitulation document...

In a solemn ceremony chaired by Sultan Abd al-Majid I and attended by high dignitaries including ministers and ulama, and ambassadors to the Sublime Porte, a firman, known as Gulhane Hatti Cherif,...

Sultan Abd al-Majid I adopts a firman delimiting the possessory rights and the spatial and temporal usage rights concerning the modes of sharing control over the Christian holy places in Jerusalem...

Under pressure from Great Britain, France, and Austria (three countries that supported the Ottoman Empire against Russia in the Crimean War of 1854–1856 ), Sultan Abd al-Majid I adopts an edict,...

The Ottoman Land Code confirms the existing legal doctrine concerning land categories and land acquisition.