Syria and Bilad al-Sham under Ottoman Rule: Essays in Honour of Abdul Karim Rafeq: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, cartea 43

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements ........................................................................... xi
Notes on Contributors ..................................................................... xiii
Note on Transliteration ................................................................... xxiii

Introduction ....................................................................................... 1
Peter Sluglett
Bibliography of the Published Works of Abdul-Karim Rafeq (to April 2010) ......... 47
Compiled by Timothy J. Fitzgerald

PART ONE
ENCOMIA: RAFEQ THE HISTORIAN
Abdul-Karim Rafeq, Friend and Colleague .................................. 59
Muhammad Adnan Bakhit
Ākhir al-‘Unqud, Th e Last of the Vintage .................................... 65
† Nicola Ziadeh
Abdul-Karim Rafeq, Historian of Syria: Some Personal Observations ... 69
Ulrike Freitag
Abdul-Karim Rafeq; Humanist and Man of the nahdha .......... 79
Abdallah Hanna
Rafeq’s Ghazza: An Early Exploration of a Secondary Town ... 91
James A. Reilly

PART TWO
THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF OTTOMAN RULE IN BILAD AL-SHAM
The Economic Impact of the Ottoman Conquest on Bilad al-Sham ...................... 101
Thomas Philipp
Public Services and Tax Revenues in Ottoman Tripoli (1516–1918) ................... 115
Farouk Hoblos
Aspects of the Economic History of Damascus during the First Half of the Eighteenth Century ........ 137
Mohannad al-Mubaidin
translated by W. Matt Malczycki
Damiette and Syrian-Egyptian Trade in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century ............. 155
Daniel Crecelius

PART THREE
SPACE, URBAN INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY IN OTTOMAN BILAD AL-SHAM
The Making of an Ottoman Harbour Town: Sidon/Saida from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries .... 179
Stefan Weber
Les constructions d’Ismaʿil Pacha al-ʿAzm à Damas (1137–1143/1725–1730) ............................... 241
Brigitte Marino
The Salihiyya Quarter of Damascus at the Beginning of Ottoman Rule: The Ambiguous Relations between
Religious Institutions and waqf Properties ..................... 269
Toru Miura
The Impact of the 1822 Earthquake on the Administration of waqf in Aleppo ...................... 293
Stefan Knost

PART FOUR
THE OTTOMAN STATE AND LOCAL SOCIETY IN BILAD AL-SHAM
Arab National Consciousness in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Syria ................... 309
Steve Tamari
The Lebanese Leadership at the Beginning of the Ottoman Period: A Case Study of the Maʿn Family ....... 323
Massoud Daher
translated by W. Matt Malczycki
Patterns of Family Formation in Early Ottoman Damascus: Three Military Households in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries .................................................................... 347
Astrid Meier
La société militaire damascène et la campagne analysées à travers les registres de cadis ............ 371
Colette Establet et Jean-Paul Pascual
Islamic Law and the Order of State: The Legal Status of the Cultivator .................................... 399
Martha Mundy
Account Books of Oppression and Bargaining: The Struggle for Justice and Profi t in Ottoman Aleppo, 1784–90 ............... 421
Hidemitsu Kuroki

PART FIVE
RELIGION AND SOCIETY IN BILAD AL-SHAM
Écrire l’histoire des chrétiens dans les villes de Syrie avant les réformes Ottomanes ................ 443
Bernard Heyberger
The Establishment of the Melkite Catholic Millet in 1848 and the Politics of Identity in Tanzimat Syria ... 455
Bruce Masters
The awqaf of the Christian Communities in Aleppo during the Nineteenth Century ..................... 475
Souad Slim
Migration, Faith and Community: Extra-Local Linkages in Coastal Syria ........................................ 483
Dick Douwes

PART SIX
EUROPEANS IN BILAD AL-SHAM
Aux origines du plan d’Alep par Rousseau : le plan de Vincent Germain de 1811 ........................ 499
André Raymond
The Memoirs of a French Woman Traveller to the Levant in 1853–1855 ......................................... 513
Leila Fawaz

PART SEVEN
BILAD AL-SHAM IN THE LATE OTTOMAN AND MANDATORY PERIODS
Municipalities in the Late Ottoman Empire ................................. 531
Peter Sluglett
La demeure de ‘Uthman Nuri Pasha et le développement des quartiers d’al-‘Afi f et de Jisr al-Abyad à la fin de
l’époque ottomane ......................................................................... 543
Sarab Atassi
Comment approcher l’histoire moderne de la Palestine? ........... 563
Maher al-Charif
The Uprisings in Antakya 1918–1926: Guided by the Centre or Initiated on the Periphery? ........... 575
Dalal Arsuzi-Elamir
General Bibliography ........................................................................ 597
Index .................................................................................................... 625

Peter Sluglett, D.Phil (1973) in History, St Antony's College Oxford, is Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. He has published extensively on the modern history of Iraq. His most recent publication is an edited collection on the urban social history of the Middle East between 1750 and 1950.

Stefan Weber, D.Phil (2001) in Islamwissenschaft (Middle Eastern Studies), Free University Berlin, is Director of the Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon, Berlin. He was Assistant Professor of Material Culture at Aga Khan University in London from 2006 to 2008. He has published widely on cultural heritage in the Middle East. Dr Weber is a member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and several other relevant organisations.



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.