Syria and Bilad al-Sham under Ottoman rule
Subtitle: essays in honour of Abdul Karim Rafeq
By: edited by Peter Sluglett
Series: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage -- v. 43
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9789004181939
Description: This volume honours the work of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the foremost historian of Ottoman Syria. Rafeq's principal contribution to the study of the social history of Syria between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries lies in his pioneering use of the resources of the Islalmic court records, the sijillat in the mahkama alshar'iyya, for the writing of social and economic history. Rafeq has been the guide and mentor of many of his own contemporaries, as well as of younger scholars in the Arab world, Europe and North America. The volume attmepts to follow and complement the major themes in the socio-economic history of Bilad al-Sham which have animated Rafeq's scholarship since the 1960's.-- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.