The Business of State : : Ottoman Finance Administration and Ruling Elites in Transition (1580s –1615) /

The Business of State : : Ottoman Finance Administration and Ruling Elites in Transition (1580s –1615) / / Pál Fodor.

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Based on original Ottoman sources, the author traces the transformation of the financial and administrative system of the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the 17th century. The changes were made necessary by the burgeoning budget deficit, a consequence of overspending by the oversized Ottoman state. Th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Fodor, Pál,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker ; 28
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Physical Description:1 online resource (402 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on transliteration and usage
  • PART ONE
  • I. About the theme
  • II. Outlines of the Ottoman system in the sixteenth century
  • III. The crisis of the system in the second half of the sixteenth century
  • PART TWO
  • I. The disruption of the Ottoman monetary system and attempts to manage the crisis
  • II. Venality and tax-farming
  • III. Confiscation
  • IV. “Fixed-amount has” (icmallü has) and “annual salary” (salyane)
  • V. Private and forced loans to the treasury
  • VI. Taxing the middle and lower ranks of the army: The “substitute money” paid by timar-holders, fortress garrisons, volunteers, and those waiting for a post
  • VII. The regularisation of extraordinary war taxes (avarız-i divaniye)
  • VIII. An increase in the poll-tax (cizye) and levying supplemental taxes
  • IX. The last major land/tax surveys of the empire— Farewell to the tahrir system
  • X. Compensation for the decrease in income: “fodder money” (arpalık), “service” (hizmet) and “employment” (istihdam)
  • XI. Settling the matter of the fortress garrison troops and the provincial kuls: transition to the ocaklık system
  • PART THREE
  • In conclusion: Some major consequences of the crisis and of the transformation
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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