Forging urban solidarities Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700 /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Series: | Ottoman Empire and its heritage ;
v. 41. |
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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.