Forging urban solidarities : Ottoman Aleppo 1640-1700 /
The monograph considers the ways in which the Ottoman state in the early modern period mobilized human and material resources for war-making and what secondary effects this had on provincial society. Focusing on the Levantine trading center of Aleppo, it explores changes in the relations of power op...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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Colección: | Ottoman Empire and its heritage ;
v. 41. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Extraordinary taxes ('avāriż) and local administration
- The 'avāriż tax regime and the conduct of tax surveys
- The mechanics of local tax administration : land use, personal liability, and apportionment
- The responsibilities and compensation of quarter tax officials
- A fiscal demography of Aleppo
- Urban responses to the imposition of extraordinary taxes
- The frequency and level of extraordinary tax levies
- Popular strategies for tax relief : tax exemption
- Other individual strategies for tax relief
- Collective action and mutual assistance
- Residential quarters and the question of "positive loyalties"
- Military units : elements of solidarity and division
- Survey of military cadres
- Residence patterns
- Compensation of troops
- Ocaḳlıḳ and the guards of the Kars Citadel
- Soldiers, market regulation, and moneylending
- Mobilization and unit solidarity
- The career of 'Alī b. Shabīb (d. ca. 1678)
- The episode of 'Alī Agha b. 'Abdullāh
- Limits on unit discipline and solidarity
- Solidarity and leadership in the guilds
- Guild self-government
- The leadership of the guilds : two case studies
- The butchers
- The Ḳaṣapbas̜i : compensation and social background
- The tanners
- The Akhī Bābā and Shaykh al-Sab'a
- A sketch of one Shaykh al-Sab'a : Sayyid Ibrāhīm b. Sayyid Rajab al-Ḥ'anbalī (d. 1678)
- The Shaykh al-Dabbāghīn and Naqīb al-Dabbāghīn
- Relations among guilds
- Guilds : patterns of autonomy and organizational fluidity.