Dynamism in the urban society of Damascus : : the Salihiyya Quarter from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries / / by Toru Miura.

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Superior document:Islamic area studies ; volume 2
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Place / Publishing House:Boston ;, Leiden : : Brill,, [2016]
2016
Julkaisuvuosi:2016
Kieli:English
Sarja:Islamic area studies (Brill) ; v. 2.
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Ulkoasu:1 online resource (369 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
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Sisällysluettelo:
  • Introduction: Towards a new perspective of Islamic urban societies from a suburban quarter of Damascus
  • 1. Madrasas and waqfs in Damascus: the basis of urban development
  • 2. Formation of the Salihiyya quarter in the northern suburbs in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods
  • 3. The structure and transformation of the Salihiyya quarter
  • 4. Administrative networks in the late Mamluk period: taxation and bribery
  • 5. Urban society in Damascus at the end of the Mamluk period: emergence of jama?a (factions) and zu?r (outlaws)
  • 6. Ambiguous relations between religious institutions and waqf properties at the beginning of Ottoman rule
  • 7. Personal networks surrounding the Salihiyya court in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  • 8. Formality and reality in shari?a court records: socio-economic relations in the Salihiyya quarter in the nineteenth century
  • 9. Changes in waqf institutions and the internal organisation of the quarter at the beginning of the twentieth century
  • Conclusion: Dynamism of personal networks and social justice.