Men of modest substance
Subtitle: house owners and house property in seventeenth-century Ankara and Kayseri
By: Suraiya Faroqhi.
Series: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Housing -- Turkey -- Ankara -- History -- 17th century.; Housing -- Turkey -- Kayseri -- History -- 17th century.; Architecture, Domestic -- Turkey.; Housing -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History -- 17th century.; Home ownership -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century.
Description: "This is a study of two contrasting towns in Anatolia in the seventeenth century. As house ownership was widespread, data concerning value, description, location and ownership of dwellings constitute a valid manner of approaching urban society as a whole. Through her use of documents from the kadi registers of Ankara and Kayseri, Dr Faroqui follows changes in patterns of house ownership over approximately a century. The urban society thus revealed differs from the patterns generally associated with the 'Islamic city' model. Townsmen often bought real estate without selecting a quarter inhabited by their co-religionists, which throws light on the Muslim majority's attitude to the Christian minority. However examples of wealthy and poor quarters were not known. The kadi registers also indicate that despite passing through a period of crisis early in the century, both cultures managed a fairly rapid recovery from this."
Notes: Bibliography: p. 249-259.
Includes index.