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Excerpt from Foreigners in Turkey, Their Juridical Status
While Islam is truly a gospel, code and constitu tion, it has, however, like the American Constitution, been amplified and adapted to altered circumstances in ways not probably anticipated by its founder. The universally accepted authority in Moslem jurisprudence in Turkey is the general code M ultekapul-obhof con ?uence of the seas) drawn up by Sheikh Ibrahim of Aleppo by order of Soliman II. (1520 This code comprises five codes, namely, the religious, civil, commercial, political, and military codes.9 It is to the political code that we must refer in order to determine the status Of foreigners in Turkey from the Moslem point of view.
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