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Damascus life, 1480-1500 : a report of a local notary /

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 Ṭawq, a local...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shoshan, Boaz (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
Series:Islamic history and civilization ; v. 168.
Subjects:
Ibn Ṭawq, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, > 1430 or 1431-1509 or 1510. > Taʻlīq.
Ibn Ṭawq, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, > 1430 or 1431-1509 or 1510 > Diaries.
Arabs > Syria > Damascus > Diaries.
Notaries > Syria > Damascus > Diaries.
Damascus (Syria) > History > 15th century.
Damascus (Syria) > Social conditions > 15th century.
Damascus (Syria) > Social life and customs.
Table of Contents:
  • Ibn Ṭawq, his family, household, and close friends
  • Damascus ca. 1480-1500 : a city in crisis
  • The shaykh al-Islām : a giant in an embattled world of scholars
  • Bourgeois fortunes
  • The court : dispute and crime
  • The family : marriage, divorce, and the household.