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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 ofyounger 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.

Table of contents:
CONTENTSAcknowledgements ………………………………………………………………… xiNotes on Contributors …………………………………………………………… xiiiNote on Transliteration …………………………………………………………. xxiiiIntroduction …………………………………………………………………………… 1Peter SluglettBibliography of the Published Works of Abdul-Karim Rafeq (to April 2010) ……… 47Compiled by Timothy J. FitzgeraldPART ONEENCOMIA: RAFEQ THE HISTORIANAbdul-Karim Rafeq, Friend and Colleague ……………………………. 59Muhammad Adnan BakhitĀkhir al-‘Unqud, Th e Last of the Vintage ……………………………… 65† Nicola ZiadehAbdul-Karim Rafeq, Historian of Syria: Some Personal Observations … 69Ulrike FreitagAbdul-Karim Rafeq; Humanist and Man of the nahdha ………. 79Abdallah HannaRafeq’s Ghazza: An Early Exploration of a Secondary Town … 91James A. ReillyPART TWOTHE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF OTTOMAN RULE IN BILAD AL-SHAMThe Economic Impact of the Ottoman Conquest on Bilad al-Sham …………………. 101Thomas PhilippPublic Services and Tax Revenues in Ottoman Tripoli (1516–1918) ………………. 115Farouk HoblosAspects of the Economic History of Damascus during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century …….. 137Mohannad al-Mubaidintranslated by W. Matt MalczyckiDamiette and Syrian-Egyptian Trade in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century …………. 155Daniel CreceliusPART THREESPACE, URBAN INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY IN OTTOMAN BILAD AL-SHAMThe Making of an Ottoman Harbour Town: Sidon/Saida from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries …. 179Stefan WeberLes constructions d’Ismaʿil Pacha al-ʿAzm à Damas (1137–1143/1725–1730) …………………………. 241Brigitte MarinoThe Salihiyya Quarter of Damascus at the Beginning of Ottoman Rule: The Ambiguous Relations betweenReligious Institutions and waqf Properties ………………… 269Toru MiuraThe Impact of the 1822 Earthquake on the Administration of waqf in Aleppo …………………. 293Stefan KnostPART FOURTHE OTTOMAN STATE AND LOCAL SOCIETY IN BILAD AL-SHAMArab National Consciousness in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Syria ………………. 309Steve TamariThe Lebane