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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilkins, Charles L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Colección:Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 41.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.