Damascus Life 1480-1500: A Report of a Local Notary

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41325-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 168, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

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 Tawq, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shoshan, Boaz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

Maps

Introduction

1 Ibn Tawq, His Family, Household, and Close Friends

2 Damascus ca. 1480–1500: A City in Crisis

3 The Shaykh al-Islam: 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

Über Autor(innen)

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 Tabari's History (Brill, 2004).