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

By: Wilkins, Charles LMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Ottoman Empire and its Heritage ; Vol.41.Publisher: Leiden : Brill, 2010Description: xvi, 323 p. : tabl. ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004169074 (hardback)Other title: Ottoman Aleppo 1640-1700Subject(s): Solidarity -- Political aspects -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century | Solidarity -- Economic aspects -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century | Taxation -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century | Soldiers -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century | Guilds -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century | City and town life -- Syria -- Aleppo -- History -- 17th century | Aleppo (Syria) -- Politics and government -- 17th century | Aleppo (Syria) -- Economic conditions -- 17th century | Aleppo (Syria) -- Social conditions -- 17th century | Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918LOC classification: DS99.A56 | W55 2010
Contents:
Extraordinary taxes ('avāriż) and local administration -- The 'avāriż 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" -- Military units : elements of solidarity and division -- Survey of military cadres -- Residence patterns -- Compensation of troops -- Ocaḳlıḳ and the guards of the Kars Citadel -- Soldiers, market regulation, and moneylending -- Mobilization and unit solidarity -- The career of 'Alī b. Shabīb (d. ca. 1678) -- The episode of 'Alī Agha b. 'Abdullāh -- Limits on unit discipline and solidarity -- Solidarity and leadership in the guilds -- Guild self-government -- The leadership of the guilds : two case studies -- The butchers -- The Ḳaṣapbąsi : compensation and social background -- The tanners -- The Akhī Bābā and Shaykh al-Sab'a -- A sketch of one Shaykh al-Sab'a : Sayyid Ibrāhīm b. Sayyid Rajab al-Ḥ'anbalī (d. 1678) -- The Shaykh al-Dabbāghīn and Naqīb al-Dabbāghīn -- Relations among guilds -- Guilds : patterns of autonomy and organizational fluidity.
Summary: Summary: The monograph considers the ways in which the Ottoman state in the early modern period mobilized human and material resources for war-making and what secondary effects this had on provincial society. Focusing on the Levantine trading center of Aleppo, it explores changes in the relations of power operating within certain urban institutions - residential quarters, military garrisons and guilds - during the military and fiscal transformations of the late seventeenth century. Using both documents of the central state treasury and the records of local law courts, it examines how the routinization of direct imperial taxes and the assimilation of soldiers to civilian life subverted the city's social and political order.
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Glossary, bibliography and index.

Extraordinary taxes ('avāriż) and local administration -- The 'avāriż 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" -- Military units : elements of solidarity and division -- Survey of military cadres -- Residence patterns -- Compensation of troops -- Ocaḳlıḳ and the guards of the Kars Citadel -- Soldiers, market regulation, and moneylending -- Mobilization and unit solidarity -- The career of 'Alī b. Shabīb (d. ca. 1678) -- The episode of 'Alī Agha b. 'Abdullāh -- Limits on unit discipline and solidarity -- Solidarity and leadership in the guilds -- Guild self-government -- The leadership of the guilds : two case studies -- The butchers -- The Ḳaṣapbąsi : compensation and social background -- The tanners -- The Akhī Bābā and Shaykh al-Sab'a -- A sketch of one Shaykh al-Sab'a : Sayyid Ibrāhīm b. Sayyid Rajab al-Ḥ'anbalī (d. 1678) -- The Shaykh al-Dabbāghīn and Naqīb al-Dabbāghīn -- Relations among guilds -- Guilds : patterns of autonomy and organizational fluidity.

Summary: The monograph considers the ways in which the Ottoman state in the early modern period mobilized human and material resources for war-making and what secondary effects this had on provincial society. Focusing on the Levantine trading center of Aleppo, it explores changes in the relations of power operating within certain urban institutions - residential quarters, military garrisons and guilds - during the military and fiscal transformations of the late seventeenth century. Using both documents of the central state treasury and the records of local law courts, it examines how the routinization of direct imperial taxes and the assimilation of soldiers to civilian life subverted the city's social and political order.