© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden,  | doi:./- Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient  () – brill.com/jesh Judiciary and Wealth in the Ottoman Empire, 1689–1843 Zeynep Dörtok Abacı | orcid: --- Professor of History, Bursa Uludağ University, FAS , Görükle Campus, 16059, Nilüfer, Bursa, Türkiye dortok@uludag.edu.tr Jun Akiba Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan j-akiba@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp Metin Coşgel Professor of Economics, University of Connecticut, Unit 1063, 365 Fairfield Way, Storrs, CT 06269-1063, USA metin.cosgel@uconn.edu Boğaç Ergene | orcid: --- Professor of History, University of Vermont, 133 South Prospect Street, Burlington, VT 05405, USA bogac.ergene@uvm.edu Abstract This article examines the accumulation, temporal variation, and inequality of wealth in the Ottoman judiciary between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using information from the estate inventories, we calculate the gross and net wealth of judges at the time of death. Comparisons against contemporary economic indicators show low to moderate levels of wealth accumulation among the judiciary. Wealth lev- els varied significantly across judiciary subgroups and they dropped drastically in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Regression analysis shows that differences in motives for bequests and family connections to other members of the judiciary con- tributed to the inequality of wealth. Downloaded from Brill.com03/19/2023 08:16:04AM via free access