Χανάτο της Κριμαίας: Διαφορά μεταξύ των αναθεωρήσεων

Crimean law was based on Tatar law, Islamic law and on limited matters the Ottoman law. The leader of the Muslim establishment was the mufti, who was selected among the local Muslim clergy. His major duty was neither judicial nor theological, it was financial. The mufti’s administration controlled all of the [[vakif]] lands and their enomous revenues. Another Muslim official, appointed not by the clergy but the Ottoman sultan was the [[kadıasker]]. He oversaw the khanate’s judicial districts, each under jurisdiction of a [[kadi]]. Kadis theoretically depended on kadiasker but in practice to the clan leaders and the khan. The kadis determined the day to day legal behaviour of the Muslims in the khanate.

 

 

The nomadic part of the Crimean Tatars and all the Nogays were cattle-breeders. Crimea had important trading ports where the goods carried through Silk Road were exported to the Ottoman Empire and Europe. Crimean Khanate had many sizeable, beautiful and lively cities such as [[Bakhchisaray]] - the capital, [[Kezlev]], [[Bilohirsk|Karasubazar]] and [[Simferopol|Aqmescit]] having numerous [[caravansarai]]s, hans and merchant quarters, leather-manufactures, mills. The settled Crimean Tatars were engaged in trade, agriculture, and artisanry. Crimea was a center of wine and tobacco production, and fruit farming. The [[Bakhchisaray]] [[kilim]]s (oriental rugs) were exported to [[Poland]], and knives made by Crimean Tatar artisans were thought to be best among the Caucasian tribes. Crimean Tatars were famous Silkworm cultivation, and honey production. One of the major sources of incomes of Crimean Tatar and Nogay nobility was booty attained from campaigns to the neighbouring countries and slave trade. (Brian G. Williams)