Note 510 — Chapter VI · THE RULING INSTITUTION: AS GOVERNMENT
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Hammer, Staatsverfassung, 29. This use of the word Urf in Turkish is not the same as that of its Arabic original (see Redhouse, 1294; Youssouf Fehmi, 237). Heidborn, 37 ff., discusses the sources of Ottoman law, giving an especially thorough and excellent treatment to the Sacred Law.