Dynamism in the urban society of Damascus : the Salihiyya Quarter from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries / by Toru Miura.

By: Miura, Toru, 1953- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Islamic area studies (Brill) ; v. 2.Publisher: Boston ; Leiden : Brill, [2016]Copyright date: 2016Description: 1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789004304437 (e-book)Subject(s): Salihiyah (Syria) -- History | Damascus (Syria) -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dynamism in the urban society of Damascus : the Salihiyya Quarter from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries.DDC classification: 953.91/44 LOC classification: DS99.S24 | M58 2016Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction: Towards a new perspective of Islamic urban societies from a suburban quarter of Damascus -- 1. Madrasas and waqfs in Damascus: the basis of urban development -- 2. Formation of the Salihiyya quarter in the northern suburbs in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods -- 3. The structure and transformation of the Salihiyya quarter -- 4. Administrative networks in the late Mamluk period: taxation and bribery -- 5. Urban society in Damascus at the end of the Mamluk period: emergence of jama?a (factions) and zu?r (outlaws) -- 6. Ambiguous relations between religious institutions and waqf properties at the beginning of Ottoman rule -- 7. Personal networks surrounding the Salihiyya court in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 8. Formality and reality in shari?a court records: socio-economic relations in the Salihiyya quarter in the nineteenth century -- 9. Changes in waqf institutions and the internal organisation of the quarter at the beginning of the twentieth century -- Conclusion: Dynamism of personal networks and social justice.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Towards a new perspective of Islamic urban societies from a suburban quarter of Damascus -- 1. Madrasas and waqfs in Damascus: the basis of urban development -- 2. Formation of the Salihiyya quarter in the northern suburbs in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods -- 3. The structure and transformation of the Salihiyya quarter -- 4. Administrative networks in the late Mamluk period: taxation and bribery -- 5. Urban society in Damascus at the end of the Mamluk period: emergence of jama?a (factions) and zu?r (outlaws) -- 6. Ambiguous relations between religious institutions and waqf properties at the beginning of Ottoman rule -- 7. Personal networks surrounding the Salihiyya court in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 8. Formality and reality in shari?a court records: socio-economic relations in the Salihiyya quarter in the nineteenth century -- 9. Changes in waqf institutions and the internal organisation of the quarter at the beginning of the twentieth century -- Conclusion: Dynamism of personal networks and social justice.

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