Artisans of empire : crafts and craftspeople under the Ottomans / Suraiya Faroqhi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faroqhi, Suraiya, 1941- author.

Series:

Library of Ottoman studies ; v. 17.

Library of Ottoman studies ; 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--Turkey--History.

Material culture.

Artisans--Turkey--History.

Artisans.

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

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : I. B. Tauris, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Few doctrines in Islam have engendered as much contention and disagreement as those surrounding the imamate, the office of supreme leader of the Muslim community after the death of the Prophet. In the medieval period while the caliphate still existed, rivalry among the claimants to that most lofty position was particularly intense. The early 5th/11th-century Ismaili da'i Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani worked for most of his life in the eastern lands of the Islamic world, principally within the hostile domain of the Abbasid caliphs and the Buyid amirs.At a critical point he was summoned by the da'wa to Egypt where he taught and wrote for several years before returning once again to Iran and Iraq. About 405/1015, just prior to his move from Iraq to Cairo, he composed a treatise he called Lights to Illuminate the Proof of the Imamate (al-Masabih fi ithbat al-imama) in the bold hope of convincing Fakhr al-Mulk, the Shi'i wazir of the Buyids in Baghdad, to abandon the Abbasids and support the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim. For that purpose he produced a long, interconnected series of philosophically sophisticated proofs, all leading logically to the absolute necessity of the imamate. This work is thus unique both in the precision of its doctrine and in the historical circumstance surrounding its composition. The text appears here in a modern critical edition of the Arabic original with a complete translation, introduction and notes."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Before the 1670s

Before and after1500: how artisan organization may have emerged in the Ottoman lands

3. Services to the state

4. Guildsmen of Istanbul and Cairo

5. Provincial craftspeople and merchant networks. From the 1670s to the 1850s

6. Changes in Istanbul guilds

7. Cairo: from military penetration of artisan guilds to the state monopolies of Mehmed Ali Paşa

8. The political role of craftsmen

9. Provincial craftsmen: how guildsmen adapted to new circumstances

After 1850. 10. From 1850 to 1914: a different state, a different economy and the disappearance of the guilds

11. Conclusion. A note on transliteration.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612618895

9780857737618

0857737619

9780755610099

0755610091

9781282618893

128261889X

9781441637192

1441637192

9780857710628

0857710621

9786000019204

6000019203

OCLC:

560524739