Revenue-raising and legitimacy : tax collection and finance administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560-1660
This groundbreaking study of finance procedures and documents for the Ottoman Empire's post-classical age introduces sources for economic and social history, provides comparisons with other early modern European states and revises the concept of Ottoman decline.
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Place / Publishing House: | [Place of publication not identified] : E J Brill, 1996 |
Year of Publication: | 1996 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Ottoman Empire and its heritage ;
v. 6. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 368 p. ;) |
Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Transliteration and the Turkish Alphabet
- Identification of Archival Sources
- Introduction: The Myth of Decline
- The Myth of Ottoman Decline
- Crisis and the Ottoman State
- Sources for the Study of the Post-Classical Age
- I. Classical Ottoman Finance
- Ottoman Taxation
- Revenue Assessment by Survey (Tahrir)
- The Monetary System and the Price Revolution
- Population and Economic Change
- II. The Ottoman Central Finance Department
- Early Finance Department Organization
- Reorganizations in the Finance Structure
- The Seventeenth Century and Beyond
- III. Revenue Assessment by the Central Finance Department: Cizye and Avariz
- Revenue Surveying by the Finance Bureaus
- Registration of Taxpayers and Population Estimation
- Amounts of Money Taken in Tax
- IV. Taxation Without Assessment? Tax Farming (İltizam)
- Mukataa Revenues and Records
- Bidding and Revenue Amounts
- Bidders' Conditions and Personnel Recruitment
- İltizam Supervision
- V. Tax Collection Personnel
- Appointment of Revenue Collectors
- The Military in Cizye and Avariz Collection
- The Military in Tax Farming
- VI. Tax Collection, Remittance, and Reporting
- Collection Procedures: Cizye and Avariz
- İltizam Collection
- Remittance and Reporting
- VII. Arrears, Accounting, and Balance-Sheets
- Collectors' Accounts (Muhasebe)
- Arrears and their Collection
- Central Accounting Procedures
- Balance-Sheets and Budgets
- VIII. Complaints and Corruption
- The Petition Process
- Changing the Assessment
- Corruption in Tax Collection
- IX. Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy
- Revenue and Legitimacy: The Circle of Justice
- Revenue-Raising and Decline
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.