Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
SELCUK UNIVERSITESI TURKIYAT ARASTIRMALARI DERGISI-SELCUK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF STUDIES IN TURCOLOGY, sa.51, ss.115-136, 2021 (ESCI)
With this study, punishment procedures, which reveal a different face of the state in the Middle Ages, are discussed. Accordingly, the penalties and sanctions imposed on princes, dynasty members, statesmen, clergymen, merchants and different segments of the people are discussed under subheadings. It is seen that a series of severe and light punishments are applied, such as blinding, exile, capturing, executing, decapitating, strangling with a bow beam, killing by poisoning, taking away the iqta lands, and imposing the punishment of retaliation. It is seen that most of the punishments were applied to princes, members of the dynasty and statesmen after the subsequent developments because of attempting to revolt. It is understood that these punishments are applied more in the processes in which the political stability of the state is interrupted. Although these penalties are applied in order to create a prevention and deterrence, they were frequently experienced in the political history of the Delhi Turkish Sultanate. It shows similarity to the penal sanctions and practices seen in other medieval Turko-Islamic states in terms of content and application. It is understood that it had been paid attention to whether the applied punishments were in compliance with Islamic law and customary law ( which derives from oral tradition). While there are punishments that can be described as severe and light, there are some cases that the rulers sometimes gave up the punishments, as in the example of Sultan Celaleddin, which is mentioned in the relevant part of the study. In the last part of the study, the basic judgments and situations reached in the context of the subject are presented.