ISBN:
9781845112912
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 306 p)
,
geneal. tables, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Library of Ottoman studies 9
Parallel Title:
Print version Governing Property, Making the Modern State : Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria
DDC:
306.095691
Keywords:
Property (Islamic law)
;
Islamic modernism
;
Law and anthropology
;
Land tenure (Islamic law)
;
Syria Politics and government
;
Syria Social conditions
;
Syria Civilization
Abstract:
Was 'modernity' in the Middle East merely imported piecemeal from the West? Did Ottoman society really consist of islands of sophistication in a sea of tribal conservatism, as has so often been claimed? In this groundbreaking new book, Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith draw on over a decade of primary source research to argue that, contrary to such stereotypes, a distinctively Ottoman process of modernisation was achieved by the end of the nineteenth century with great social consequences for all who lived through it. Modernisation touched women as intimately as men: the authors' careful
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Maps, figures and tables; Notes on transliteration, datation and abbreviation; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Ottoman jurisprudence concerning ownership of agricultural land; 2. Jurisprudential debate in the sixteenth century; 3. Jurisprudential debate in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; 4. Legal reform from the 1830s to the First World War; Part Two: The administration of property in one district of the empire; 5. Production and settlement in the district of 'Ajlun; 6. The introductino of bureaucratic registration
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Regional leadership and the prosecution of a governor8. Property and administration in the later Tanzimat; Part Three: Governing property: administration, village, household; 9.Registration and political economy in two plains villages; 10. Registration and political economy in two hill villages; 11. A village of the plains: Hawwara; 12. A village of mixed agriculture in the hills: Kufr 'Awan; 13. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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