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LEADER: 02104cam a22003258i 4500
001 2015032459
003 DLC
005 20151230080827.0
008 150820s2015 mau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015032459
020 $a9789004304413 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a9789004305403 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $aa-sy---
050 00 $aDS99.S24$bM58 2015
082 00 $a953.91/44$223
100 1 $aMiura, Tōru,$d1953-
245 10 $aDynamism in the urban society of Damascus :$bthe Ṣāliḥiyya Quarter from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries /$cby Toru Miura.
263 $a1511
264 1 $aBoston ;$aLeiden :$bBrill,$c[2015]
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aIslamic area studies ;$vv. 2
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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 Ṣāliḥiyya quarter in the northern suburbs in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods -- 3. The structure and transformation of the Ṣāliḥiyya 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 Ṣāliḥiyya court in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- 8. Formality and reality in shari?a court records: socio-economic relations in the Ṣāliḥiyya 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.
651 0 $aṢāliḥīyah (Syria)$xHistory.
651 0 $aDamascus (Syria)$xHistory.