Syria and Bilad al-Sham under Ottoman rule : : essays in honour of Abdul-Karim Rafeq / / edited by Peter Sluglett with Stefan Weber.

• Superior document: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage : politics, society and economy, v. 43
• Author: Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft. Orient-Institut.
• TeilnehmendeR: Rafeq, Abdul-Karim.; Sluglett, Peter.; Weber, Stefan.; Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft. Orient-Institut.; Institut français du Proche-Orient.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage 43.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (630 p.)
• Notes: "The papers in this volume were originally presented at a conference in honour of Abdul-Karim Rafeq held in 2004 at the Orient-Institut in Beirut (28-30 May) and at l'Institut français du Proche-Orient in Damascus (1-2 June)"--Acknowl.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Bibliography of the Published Works of Abdul-Karim Rafeq (to April 2010) /; Encomia: Rafeq The Historian Abdul-Karim Rafeq, Friend and Colleague /; Ākhir al-‘Unqud, The Last of the Vintage /; Abdul-Karim Rafeq, Historian of Syria: Some Personal Observations /; Abdul-Karim Rafeq; Humanist and Man of the nahdha /; Rafeq’s Ghazza: An Early Exploration of a Secondary Town /; The Economic History of Ottoman Rule in Bilad al-Sham The Economic Impact of the Ottoman Conquest on Bilad al-Sham /; Public Services and Tax Revenues in Ottoman Tripoli (1516–1918) /; Aspects of the Economic History of Damascus during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century /; Damiette and Syrian-Egyptian Trade in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century /; Space, Urban Institutions and Society in Ottoman Bilad al-Sham The Making of an Ottoman Harbour Town: Sidon/Saida from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries /; Les constructions d’Ismaʿil Pacha al-ʿAzm à Damas (1137–1143/1725–1730) /; The Salihiyya Quarter of Damascus at the Beginning of Ottoman Rule: The Ambiguous Relations between Religious Institutions and waqf Properties /; The Impact of the 1822 Earthquake on the Administration of waqf in Aleppo /; The Ottoman State and Local Society in Bilad al-Sham Arab National Consciousness in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Syria /; The Lebanese Leadership at the Beginning of the Ottoman Period: A Case Study of the Maʿn Family /; Patterns of Family Formation in Early Ottoman Damascus: Three Military Households in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries /; La société militaire damascène et la campagne analysées à travers les registres de cadis /; Islamic Law and the Order of State: The Legal Status of the Cultivator /; Account Books of Oppression and Bargaining: The Struggle for Justice and Profit in Ottoman Aleppo, 1784–90 /; Religion and Society in Bilad al-Sham Écrire l’histoire des chrétiens dans les villes de Syrie avant les réformes Ottomanes /; The Establishment of the Melkite Catholic Millet in 1848 and the Politics of Identity in Tanzimat Syria /; The awqaf of the Christian Communities in Aleppo during the Nineteenth Century /; Migration, Faith and Community: Extra-Local Linkages in Coastal Syria /; Europeans in Bilad al-ShamAux origines du plan d’Alep par Rousseau : le plan de Vincent Germain de 1811 /; The Memoirs of a French Woman Traveller to the Levant in 1853–1855 /; Bilad al-Sham in the Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods Municipalities in the Late Ottoman Empire /; La demeure de ‘Uthman Nuri Pasha et le développement des quartiers d’al-‘Afif et de Jisr al-Abyad à la fin de l’époque ottomane /
• Bibliography: "Bibliography of Abdul-Karim Rafeq's Published Works (to April 2010)": pages [47]-56.; Includes bibliographical references (p. [597]-624) and index.
• ISBN: 1283851954; 9004191046
• ISSN: 1380-6076
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Peter Sluglett with Stefan Weber.

This volume brings together some thirty essays in a Festschrift in honour of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the leading historian of Ottoman Syria, touching on themes in socio-economic history which have been Rafeq's principal academic concerns.