Damascus Life 1480-1500: A Report of a Local Notary
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2019
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Approx. 210 pp.
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-41325-2 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-41325-2 (ISBN)
In Damascus Life 1480-1500: A Report of a Local Notary, Boaz Shoshan writes the microhistory of Ibn Ṭawq, a lower middle class clerk who worked in the city´s legal system on the eve of the Ottoman conquest, based on his unique diary.
In Damascus Life 1480-1500: A Report of a Local Notary, Boaz Shoshan offers a microhistory of the largest Syrian city at the end of the Mamluk period and on the eve of the Ottoman conquest. Mainly based on a partly preserved diary, the earliest available of its kind and written by Ibn Ṭawq, a local notary, it portrays the life of a lower middle class who originated from the countryside and who, through marriage, was able to become a legal clerk and associate with scholars and bureaucrats. His diary does not only provide us with unique information on his family, social circle and the general situation in Damascus, but it also sheds light on subjects of which little is known, such as the functioning of the legal system, marriage and divorce, bourgeois property and the mores of the common people.
In Damascus Life 1480-1500: A Report of a Local Notary, Boaz Shoshan offers a microhistory of the largest Syrian city at the end of the Mamluk period and on the eve of the Ottoman conquest. Mainly based on a partly preserved diary, the earliest available of its kind and written by Ibn Ṭawq, a local notary, it portrays the life of a lower middle class who originated from the countryside and who, through marriage, was able to become a legal clerk and associate with scholars and bureaucrats. His diary does not only provide us with unique information on his family, social circle and the general situation in Damascus, but it also sheds light on subjects of which little is known, such as the functioning of the legal system, marriage and divorce, bourgeois property and the mores of the common people.
Boaz Shoshan, Ph.D. (1978), Princeton University, Professor Emeritus of History and Middle East Studies at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, is the author of books and articles on medieval islamic history, including Poetics of Islamic Historiography: Deconstructing Ṭabarī's History (Brill, 2004).
Preface
Abbreviations
Maps
Introduction
1 Ibn Ṭawq, His Family, Household, and Close Friends
2 Damascus ca. 1480–1500: A City in Crisis
3 The Shaykh al-Islām: A Giant in an Embattled World of Scholars
4 Bourgeois Fortunes
5 The Court: Dispute and Crime
6 The Family: Marriage, Divorce, and the Household
Epilogue
Appendix Food Prices 873–921/1468–1516
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.11.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Islamic History and Civilization ; 168 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 480 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-41325-1 / 9004413251 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-41325-2 / 9789004413252 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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