Based on narratives, including ‘urban legends’, and Ottoman archival sources, this article deals with prostitution in the Ottoman Empire in view of its legal and judicial treatment according to both Sharia and sultanic law. Ottoman policies towards prostitution included measures and punishments ranging from milder (imprisonment, expulsion, taxation, legalization of brothels) to harsher (death sentence and corporal punishment). Since the Ottoman Empire included territories of a great variety of peoples and local customs the measures applied changed over time and varied across places. The author puts forward the hypothesis that the harshness of punishment depended perhaps also on the impact of conservative religious circles such as the Kadizâdelis and Mujaddidiyah.

本文根据包括“都市传说”在内的叙述和奥斯曼帝国档案资料，根据伊斯兰教法和苏丹法律，根据奥斯曼帝国的法律和司法待遇来探讨奥斯曼帝国的卖淫问题。奥斯曼对卖淫的政策包括从较轻（监禁、驱逐、征税、妓院合法化）到较严厉（死刑和体罚）的措施和惩罚。由于奥斯曼帝国包括各种民族和当地习俗的领土，因此所采用的措施随着时间的推移而发生变化，并因地方而异。作者提出了这样一种假设，即惩罚的严厉程度可能还取决于保守派宗教界的影响，例如 Kadizâdelis 和 Mujaddidiyah。