The
Mecelle (also transliterated
Mejelle,
Majalla,
Medjelle, or
Meğelle, from the
Ottoman Turkish, Mecelle-ʾi Aḥkām-ı ʿAdlīye - from Arabic
مجلة الأحكام العدلية Majallah el-Ahkam-i-Adliya) was the
civil code of the
Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was the first attempt to
codify a part of the
Sharia-based law of an
Islamic state.