Forging urban solidarities : Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700 / by Charles L. Wilkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkins, Charles L.

Series:

Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 41.

The Ottoman Empire and its heritage, 1380-6076 ; v. 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taxation--Syria--Aleppo--History--17th century.

Taxation.

Soldiers--Syria--Aleppo--History--17th century.

Soldiers.

Guilds--Syria--Aleppo--History--17th century.

Guilds.

City and town life--Syria--Aleppo--History--17th century.

City and town life.

Solidarity--Political aspects--Syria--Aleppo--History--17th century.

Solidarity.

Solidarity--Economic aspects--Syria--Aleppo--History--17th century.

Aleppo (Syria)--Politics and government--17th century.

Aleppo (Syria).

Aleppo (Syria)--Economic conditions--17th century.

Aleppo (Syria)--Social conditions--17th century.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

pt. 1. Extraordinary taxes ('avariz) and local administration

The 'avariz tax regime and the conduct of tax surveys

The mechanics of local tax administration : land use, personal liability, and apportionment

The responsibilities and compensation of quarter tax officials

A fiscal demography of Aleppo

Urban responses to the Imposition of extraordinary taxes

The frequency and level of extraordinary tax levies

Popular strategies for tax relief : tax exemption

Other individual strategies for tax relief

Collective action and mutual assistance

Residential quarters and the question of "positive loyalties"

pt. 2. Military units : elements of solidarity and division

Survey of military cadres

Residence patterns

Compensation of troops

Ocaklik and the guards of the Kars Citadel : soldiers, market regulation, and moneylending

Mobilization and unit solidarity

The career of 'Ali b. Shabib (d. ca. 1678)

The episode of 'Ali Agha b. 'Abdullah

Limits on unit discipline and solidarity

pt. 3. Solidarity and leadership in the guilds

Guild self-government

The leadership of the guilds : two case studies

The butchers

The Kasapbasi : compensation and social background

The tanners

The Akhi Baba and Shaykh al-Sab'a

A sketch of one Shaykh al-Sab'a : Sayyid Ibrahim b. Sayyid Rajab al-H'anbali (d. 1678)

The Shaykh al-Dabbaghin and Naqib al-Dabbaghin

Relations among guilds

Guilds : patterns of autonomy and organizational fluidity.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-94931-4

9786612949319

90-04-19330-8

OCLC:

695989857

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004169074.i-328 DOI