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Turkey: Ahmed Cevdet Pasha (1822 - 1895), Ottoman period historian and scholar, and head of the Mecelle commission that codified Islamic law.<br/><br/>

The Mecelle was the civil code of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th and early 20th century.