Forging urban solidarities : Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700 /

Forging urban solidarities : Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700 / / by Charles L. Wilkins.

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As with most empires of the Early Modern period (1500-1800), the Ottomans mobilized human and material resources for warmaking on a scale that was vast and unprecedented. The present volume examines the direct and indirect effects of warmaking on Aleppo, an important Ottoman administrative center an...

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Superior document:The Ottoman Empire and its heritage, v. 41
:
Wilkins, Charles L.
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 41.
Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Extraordinary taxes ('avariz) and local administration
  • The 'avariz 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"
  • pt. 2. Military units : elements of solidarity and division
  • Survey of military cadres
  • Residence patterns
  • Compensation of troops
  • Ocaklik and the guards of the Kars Citadel : soldiers, market regulation, and moneylending
  • Mobilization and unit solidarity
  • The career of 'Ali b. Shabib (d. ca. 1678)
  • The episode of 'Ali Agha b. 'Abdullah
  • Limits on unit discipline and solidarity
  • pt. 3. Solidarity and leadership in the guilds
  • Guild self-government
  • The leadership of the guilds : two case studies
  • The butchers
  • The Kasapbasi : compensation and social background
  • The tanners
  • The Akhi Baba and Shaykh al-Sab'a
  • A sketch of one Shaykh al-Sab'a : Sayyid Ibrahim b. Sayyid Rajab al-H'anbali (d. 1678)
  • The Shaykh al-Dabbaghin and Naqib al-Dabbaghin
  • Relations among guilds
  • Guilds : patterns of autonomy and organizational fluidity.

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