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Surveying the population and revenue of six Palestinian
cities--Jerusalem, Hebron, Gaza, Ramie, Nabulus, and Safed--in the
sixteenth-century, Amnon Cohen and Bernard Lewis consider the
numbers, composition, and distribution of the Muslim, Christian,
and Jewish population, and discuss the different headings of
revenue, the manner of assessment and collection, the yield, and
the destination of the money collected. This monograph traces these
developments, in detail, over an extended period and for a
significant area of the Ottoman Empire. Based on the Tapu registers
in Istanbul and Ankara, this book provides to the academic world a
collection and analysis of documents previously unavailable and
unreadable except to a very small number of people. Translations
and annotations of these texts illuminate and explain the terms and
institutions found in Ottoman surveys of population and taxation.
Professors Cohen and Lewis establish the fact that in the cities of
Palestine, population and revenue showed a rather spectacular
parallel development towards the middle of the sixteenth-century
when the disruptive conditions of the conquest had disappeared and
Ottoman administration had been well established. Then, in the
latter half of the century, they find a recession again. Originally
published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
Surveying the population and revenue of six Palestinian
cities--Jerusalem, Hebron, Gaza, Ramie, Nabulus, and Safed--in the
sixteenth-century, Amnon Cohen and Bernard Lewis consider the
numbers, composition, and distribution of the Muslim, Christian,
and Jewish population, and discuss the different headings of
revenue, the manner of assessment and collection, the yield, and
the destination of the money collected. This monograph traces these
developments, in detail, over an extended period and for a
significant area of the Ottoman Empire. Based on the Tapu registers
in Istanbul and Ankara, this book provides to the academic world a
collection and analysis of documents previously unavailable and
unreadable except to a very small number of people. Translations
and annotations of these texts illuminate and explain the terms and
institutions found in Ottoman surveys of population and taxation.
Professors Cohen and Lewis establish the fact that in the cities of
Palestine, population and revenue showed a rather spectacular
parallel development towards the middle of the sixteenth-century
when the disruptive conditions of the conquest had disappeared and
Ottoman administration had been well established. Then, in the
latter half of the century, they find a recession again. Originally
published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
Post-Saddam Iraq is the first comprehensive attempt to describe and
analyze the major developments in Iraq from the US-led invasion
until 2010. It is the product of specialists in the history of
Iraq, the Arab and Muslim world, with a wide range of views of
Iraq's past and present. The main focus is the internal political
scene - increasingly developing along ethnic-sectarian and
religious lines (Shi'is and Sunnis, Kurds and Arabs) - discussed in
the context of re-emerging Iraqi national identity. Other major
developments, not unrelated to politics, are also addressed:
women's rights and economic trends. Post-Saddam Iraq provides an
important external, international dimension to Iraq's post-war
development through discussion of the central role played by the
Iranian regime and its deep and multi-faceted involvement in the
Iraqi internal scene; the ambivalent relations with Turkey, which
concurrently serves as the main terrestrial channel of trade and
economic ties with the world; and Iraq's persisting marginal
position in the affairs of the Arab world. The political
developments within Iraq are discussed up to the most recent events
(December 2010), when a new government was set up. It remains to be
seen whether the former centralist policies of the prime minister
will prevail in a state which is gradually disposing of the
American military presence, assuming command over its unsolved
problems of security and daily life as well as of its future
stability.
The studies brought together here are based on Amnon Cohen's many
years of research in the archives of the Shari'a courts in
Jerusalem, as well as archives in Ankara and Istanbul, London and
Paris, complemented and enhanced by travellers' reports, diplomatic
correspondence, and Arab chronicles of the Middle East. Cohen
highlights major developments in the economic, demographic and
social fields, stretching over four centuries of Ottoman rule in
Palestine, from the zenith of military achievements in Europe up to
the demise of the empire and conquest of Palestine by the British
army in the first World War. These studies are histories of the
whole country, stretching from the Mediterranean coasts to the
highlands of Jerusalem and beyond, to the Jordan valley. They cover
the vicissitudes of both the urban setting and rural hinterland,
with special attention equally paid to the diversified nature of
the Palestinian population comprised of Jews, Christians and
Muslims - and their respective holy places.
Jerusalem was never just another Ottoman town, but in the heyday of the Ottoman Empire it displayed many of the characteristics of a Muslim traditional society. Professor Cohen makes full use of the rich and hitherto unexplored Arabic and Turkish archives relating to this period to reconstruct a vivid and detailed picture of everyday life in this lively urban centre. His study focuses on the major guilds of sixteenth-century Jerusalem - butchers, soap-producers and dealers, millers and bakers, describing and analysing their production methods, prices and measures, and the services they provided for the local population. In addition, their economic ties with neighbouring villages, as well as their social background and inter-relations are discussed. The author shows how this detailed knowledge can lead to a better understanding of the longer-term changes in the economy of the city and of the Empire as a whole.
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