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

• Superior document: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage, v. 41
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Wilkins, Charles L.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 41.
• Physical Description: xvi, 323 p.

Table of 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.