Forging urban solidarities : Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700
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Forging urban solidarities : Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700
（The Ottoman Empire and its heritages : politics, society and economy, v. 41）
Brill, 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-318) and index
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Description
As with most empires of the Early Modern period (1500-1800), the Ottomans mobilized human and material resources for warmaking on a scale that was vast and unprecedented. The present volume examines the direct and indirect effects of warmaking on Aleppo, an important Ottoman administrative center and Levantine trading city, as the empire engaged in multiple conflicts, including wars with Venice (1644-69), Poland (1672-76) and the Hapsburg Empire (1663-64, 1683-99). Focusing on urban institutions such as residential quarters, military garrisons, and guilds, and using intensively the records of local law courts, the study explores how the routinization of direct imperial taxes and the assimilation of soldiers to civilian life challenged - and reshaped - the city's social and political order.
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ............................................................................ ix
List of Tables, Maps, and Figures ................................................... xi
List of Abbreviations ......................................................................... xiii
Note on Transliteration .................................................................... xv
Introduction ........................................................................................ 1
PART I
Chapter One: Extraordinary Taxes ('Avariz) and Local Administration .............. 19
The 'Avariz Tax Regime and the Conduct of Tax Surveys .... 22
The Mechanics of Local Tax Administration: Land Use, Personal Liability, and Apportionment .............. 36
The Responsibilities and Compensation of Quarter Tax Officials ................................................................... 44
A Fiscal Demography of Aleppo ................................................ 53
Chapter Two: Urban Responses to the Imposition of Extraordinary Taxes ................................................... 63
The Frequency and Level of Extraordinary Tax Levies .......... 64
Popular Strategies for Tax Relief: Tax Exemption .................. 70
Other Individual Strategies for Tax Relief ................................ 90
Collective Action and Mutual Assistance ................................. 94
Residential Quarters and the Question of "Positive Loyalties" ............................................................... 109
PART II
Chapter Three: Military Units: Elements of Solidarity and Division .................. 115
Survey of Military Cadres ............................................................ 118
Residence Patterns ........................................................................ 130
Compensation of Troops ............................................................. 142
Ocak lik and the Guards of the Kars Citadel ............................. 153
Soldiers, Market Regulation, and Moneylending .................... 158
Mobilization and Unit Solidarity ................................................ 180
The Career of 'Ali b. Shabib (d. ca. 1678) ............................ 185
The Episode of 'Ali Agha b. 'Abdullah .................................. 192
Limits on Unit Discipline and Solidarity .................................. 199
PART III
Chapter Four: Solidarity and Leadership in the Guilds .............. 205
Guild Self-Government ................................................................ 208
The Leadership of the Guilds: Two Case Studies .................... 221
The Butchers .............................................................................. 226
The K as apbasi: Compensation and Social Background ... 229
The Tanners ............................................................................... 247
The Akhi Baba and Shaykh al-Sab'a ................................. 247
A Sketch of one Shaykh al-Sab'a: Sayyid Ibrahim b. Sayyid Rajab al-H anbali (d. 1678) ................................. 257
The Shaykh al-Dabbaghin and Naqib al-Dabbaghin ...... 264
Relations among Guilds ............................................................... 271
Guilds: Patterns of Autonomy and Organizational Fluidity ................................................................................. 283
Conclusion .......................................................................................... 287
Glossary ............................................................................................... 293
Bibliography ........................................................................................ 295
Index .................................................................................................... 319
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