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 fluence 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.