Forging urban solidarities
Subtitle: Ottoman Aleppo 1640-1700
By: by Charles L. Wilkins.
Series: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage -- v. 41; Ottoman Empire and its heritage -- v. 41.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9789004169074
Subjects: Solidarity -- Political aspects -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century; Solidarity -- Economic aspects -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century; 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; Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Table of contents: title: Extraordinary taxes ('avāriż) and local administration; title: The 'avāriż 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: Military units : elements of solidarity and division; title: Survey of military cadres; title: Residence patterns; title: Compensation of troops; title: Ocaḳlıḳ and the guards of the Kars Citadel; title: Soldiers, market regulation, and moneylending; title: Mobilization and unit solidarity; title: The career of 'Alī b. Shabīb (d. ca. 1678); title: The episode of 'Alī Agha b. 'Abdullāh; title: Limits on unit discipline and solidarity; title: Solidarity and leadership in the guilds; title: Guild self-government; title: The leadership of the guilds : two case studies; title: The butchers; title: The Ḳaṣapbas̜i : compensation and social background; title: The tanners; title: The Akhī Bābā and Shaykh al-Sab'a; title: A sketch of one Shaykh al-Sab'a : Sayyid Ibrāhīm b. Sayyid Rajab al-Ḥ'anbalī (d. 1678); title: The Shaykh al-Dabbāghīn and Naqīb al-Dabbāghīn; title: Relations among guilds; title: Guilds : patterns of autonomy and organizational fluidity.