Revenue-raising and legitimacy
Subtitle: tax collection and finance administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560-1660
By: by Linda T. Darling.
Series: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage,; v. 6
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Leiden; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Taxation -- Turkey -- History.; Tax collection -- Turkey -- History.; Tax administration and procedure -- Turkey -- History.; Turkey -- Economic conditions.
Description: This study examines for the first time the finance procedures and documents of the post-classical Ottoman Empire. It provides an overview of institutional and monetary history and a detailed description of assessment and collection processes for Cizye, Avariz and Iltizam-collected taxes, the documents produced by these processes, and the information they contain.

The finance department's detailed record-keeping, procedural continuity, and provision of economic justice made it a bulwark of stability in a period of turmoil.

For specialists, this book introduces a multitude of sources on the economic and social history of the post-classical age, while for comparativists it places the empire in its seventeenth-century context. It links Ottoman administrative change with early modern state formation and reformulates the seventeenth century as a period of consolidation, not decline.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.