Syria And Bilad Al-sham Under Ottoman Rule (essays In Honour Of Abdul Karim Rafeq)

Volume editor Sluglett Peter; Volume editor Weber Stefan
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This volume brings together some thirty essays in a Festschrift in honour of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the leading historian of Ottoman Syria, touching on themes in socio-economic history which have been Rafeq''s principal academic concerns.
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This volume honours the work of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the foremost historian of Ottoman Syria. Rafeq’s principal contribution to the study of the social history of Syria between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries lies in his pioneering use of the resources of the Islamic court records, the sijillāt in the maḥkama al-sharʿiyya, for the writing of social and economic history. Rafeq has been the guide and mentor of many of his own contemporaries, as well as of younger scholars in the Arab world, Europe and North America. The volume attempts to follow and complement the major themes in the socio-economic history of Bilad al-Sham which have animated Rafeq’s scholarship since the 1960s.

Contributors include: Dalal Arsuzi-Elamir, Sarab Atassi, Adnan Bakhit, Maher al-Charif, Daniel Crecelius, Massoud Daher, Dick Douwes, Colette Establet, Leila Fawaz,Timothy Fitzgerald, Ulrike Freitag, Abdallah Hanna, Bernard Heyberger, Farouk Hoblos, Stefan Knost, Hidemitsu Kuroki, Brigitte Marino, Bruce Masters, Astrid Meier, Toru Miura, Mohannad al-Mubaidin, Martha Mundy, Jean-Paul Pascual, Thomas Philipp, André Raymond, James A. Reilly, Souad Abou Rousse Slim, Peter Sluglett, Steve Tamari, and Stefan Weber.
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CONTENTS Acknowledgements ........................................................................... xi Notes on Contributors ..................................................................... xiii Note on Transliteration ................................................................... xxiii Introduction ....................................................................................... 1 Peter Sluglett Bibliography of the Published Works of Abdul-Karim Rafeq (to April 2010) ......... 47 Compiled by Timothy J. Fitzgerald PART ONE ENCOMIA: RAFEQ THE HISTORIAN Abdul-Karim Rafeq, Friend and Colleague .................................. 59 Muhammad Adnan Bakhit Ākhir al-‘Unqud, Th e Last of the Vintage .................................... 65 † Nicola Ziadeh Abdul-Karim Rafeq, Historian of Syria: Some Personal Observations ... 69 Ulrike Freitag Abdul-Karim Rafeq; Humanist and Man of the nahdha .......... 79 Abdallah Hanna Rafeq’s Ghazza: An Early Exploration of a Secondary Town ... 91 James A. Reilly PART TWO THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF OTTOMAN RULE IN BILAD AL-SHAM The Economic Impact of the Ottoman Conquest on Bilad al-Sham ...................... 101 Thomas Philipp Public Services and Tax Revenues in Ottoman Tripoli (1516–1918) ................... 115 Farouk Hoblos Aspects of the Economic History of Damascus during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century ........ 137 Mohannad al-Mubaidin translated by W. Matt Malczycki Damiette and Syrian-Egyptian Trade in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century ............. 155 Daniel Crecelius PART THREE SPACE, URBAN INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY IN OTTOMAN BILAD AL-SHAM The Making of an Ottoman Harbour Town: Sidon/Saida from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries .... 179 Stefan Weber Les constructions d’Ismaʿil Pacha al-ʿAzm à Damas (1137–1143/1725–1730) ............................... 241 Brigitte Marino The Salihiyya Quarter of Damascus at the Beginning of Ottoman Rule: The Ambiguous Relations between Religious Institutions and waqf Properties ..................... 269 Toru Miura The Impact of the 1822 Earthquake on the Administration of waqf in Aleppo ...................... 293 Stefan Knost PART FOUR THE OTTOMAN STATE AND LOCAL SOCIETY IN BILAD AL-SHAM Arab National Consciousness in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Syria ................... 309 Steve Tamari The Lebane