Syria and Bilad al-Sham under Ottoman Rule

Product Description

This volume honours the work of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the foremost historian of Ottoman Syria. Rafeqs 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 sijill?t>/i> in the ma?kama al-shar?iyya, for the writing of social and economic history. Rafeq has been the guide and mentor of many of his own contemporaries, as well as of younger 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 Rafeqs scholarship since the 1960s.

About the Author

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 175 and 195. Stefan Weber, D.Phil (21) 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 26 to 28. 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, Andr Raymond, James A. Reilly, Souad Abou Rousse Slim, Peter Sluglett, Steve Tamari, and Stefan Weber.