Forging urban solidarities
Subtitle: Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700
By: by Charles L. Wilkins.
Series: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage -- v. 41
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789004169074
Subjects: Taxation -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century; Soldiers -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century; Guilds -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century; City and town life -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century; Aleppo (Syria) -- Politics and government -- 17th century; Aleppo (Syria) -- Economic conditions -- 17th century; Aleppo (Syria) -- Social conditions -- 17th century; Solidarity -- Political aspects -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century; Solidarity -- Economic aspects -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century; Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Extraordinary taxes ('avariz) and local administration; title: The 'avariz tax regime and the conduct of tax surveys; title: The mechanics of local tax administration : land use, personal liability, and apportionment; title: The responsibilities and compensation of quarter tax officials; title: A fiscal demography of Aleppo; title: Urban responses to the Imposition of extraordinary taxes; title: The frequency and level of extraordinary tax levies; title: Popular strategies for tax relief : tax exemption; title: Other individual strategies for tax relief; title: Collective action and mutual assistance; title: Residential quarters and the question of "positive loyalties"; title: pt. 2. Military units : elements of solidarity and division; title: Survey of military cadres; title: Residence patterns; title: Compensation of troops; title: Ocaklik and the guards of the Kars Citadel : soldiers, market regulation, and moneylending; title: Mobilization and unit solidarity; title: The career of 'Ali b. Shabib (d. ca. 1678); title: The episode of 'Ali Agha b. 'Abdullah; title: Limits on unit discipline and solidarity; title: pt. 3. Solidarity and leadership in the guilds; title: Guild self-government; title: The leadership of the guilds : two case studies; title: The butchers; title: The Kasapbasi : compensation and social background; title: The tanners; title: The Akhi Baba and Shaykh al-Sab'a; title: A sketch of one Shaykh al-Sab'a : Sayyid Ibrahim b. Sayyid Rajab al-H'anbali (d. 1678); title: The Shaykh al-Dabbaghin and Naqib al-Dabbaghin; title: Relations among guilds; title: Guilds : patterns of autonomy and organizational fluidity.