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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Peter Sluglett and Stefan Weber -- Introduction / Peter Sluglett -- Bibliography of the Published Works of Abdul-Karim Rafeq (to April 2010) / Timothy J. Fitzgerald -- Encomia: Rafeq The Historian Abdul-Karim Rafeq, Friend and Colleague / Muhammad Adnan Bakhit -- Ākhir al-‘Unqud, The Last of the Vintage / Nicola Ziadeh -- Abdul-Karim Rafeq, Historian of Syria: Some Personal Observations / Ulrike Freitag -- Abdul-Karim Rafeq; Humanist and Man of the nahdha / Abdallah Hanna -- Rafeq’s Ghazza: An Early Exploration of a Secondary Town / James A. Reilly -- The Economic History of Ottoman Rule in Bilad al-Sham The Economic Impact of the Ottoman Conquest on Bilad al-Sham / Thomas Philipp -- Public Services and Tax Revenues in Ottoman Tripoli (1516–1918) / Farouk Hoblos -- Aspects of the Economic History of Damascus during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century / Mohannad al-Mubaidin -- Damiette and Syrian-Egyptian Trade in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century / Daniel Crecelius -- 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 / Stefan Weber -- Les constructions d’Ismaʿil Pacha al-ʿAzm à Damas (1137–1143/1725–1730) / Brigitte Marino -- The Salihiyya Quarter of Damascus at the Beginning of Ottoman Rule: The Ambiguous Relations between Religious Institutions and waqf Properties / Toru Miura -- The Impact of the 1822 Earthquake on the Administration of waqf in Aleppo / Stefan Knost -- The Ottoman State and Local Society in Bilad al-Sham Arab National Consciousness in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Syria / Steve Tamari -- The Lebanese Leadership at the Beginning of the Ottoman Period: A Case Study of the Maʿn Family / Massoud Daher -- Patterns of Family Formation in Early Ottoman Damascus: Three Military Households in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Astrid Meier -- La société militaire damascène et la campagne analysées à travers les registres de cadis / Colette Establet and Jean-Paul Pascual -- Islamic Law and the Order of State: The Legal Status of the Cultivator / Martha Mundy -- Account Books of Oppression and Bargaining: The Struggle for Justice and Profit in Ottoman Aleppo, 1784–90 / Hidemitsu Kuroki -- Religion and Society in Bilad al-Sham Écrire l’histoire des chrétiens dans les villes de Syrie avant les réformes Ottomanes / Bernard Heyberger -- The Establishment of the Melkite Catholic Millet in 1848 and the Politics of Identity in Tanzimat Syria / Bruce Masters -- The awqaf of the Christian Communities in Aleppo during the Nineteenth Century / Souad Slim -- Migration, Faith and Community: Extra-Local Linkages in Coastal Syria / Dick Douwes -- Europeans in Bilad al-ShamAux origines du plan d’Alep par Rousseau : le plan de Vincent Germain de 1811 / André Raymond -- The Memoirs of a French Woman Traveller to the Levant in 1853–1855 / Leila Fawaz -- Bilad al-Sham in the Late Ottoman and Mandatory Periods Municipalities in the Late Ottoman Empire / Peter Sluglett -- 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 / Sarab Atassi.