TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miura,Toru
TI  - Dynamism in the urban society of Damascus: the Salihiyya Quarter from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries 
T2  - Islamic area studies
AV  - DS99.S24 M58 2016
U1  - 953.91/44 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Boston, Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Salihiyah (Syria)
KW  - History
KW  - Damascus (Syria)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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