Military school law enforced enclosure through roll-calls and pay deduction

Evidence

This stipulation is strengthened by other articles that together would imprint upon the minds of the soldiers in the school the fact that they were indeed in an enclosed place, segregated from the outside world by fences and gates as well as by a legal code that created the “ideas” of outside and inside, presences and absences. Art. 12, for example, punished those soldiers who argued with the locals with eight days’ imprisonment under surveillance, i.e. “house arrest” (göz habsi). Arts. 13–16 punished soldiers who were not present at the various roll-calls taken in the school with imprisonment as well as extra physical exercise. Furthermore, Art. 33 sentenced soldiers who absented themselves for more than twenty-four hours to eight days’ imprisonment in the jail as well as deducting their pay according to the number of days they were absent. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 702

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘ideas of outside and inside’ imposed by legal code resonates with the disciplinary spatiality in Middle East military modernization and with Foucault’s carceral institutions.