Author: Abdul-Rahim Abu-Husayn
Language: English
Subject: Middle East Studies
Publication Date: 1985
Number of Pages: 220
Book Dimensions: 15.3 x 22 cm
Cover Type: Hard Cover
Includes: Index and 2 Maps
Weight: 0.56 Kg
Price: $12
The author examines the rural politics of the provinces of Damascus and Tripoli in Ottoman Syria in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He considers the various kinds of rural leadership as represented by the most powerful dynasties that dominated various regions of the Ottoman Empire, and focuses on six specific Syrian dynasties, from origin to decline. This work draws on archival material from Istanbul and Damascus, together with Ottoman and Syrian chronicles, biographical and travel literature, and other Turkish, Arabic, and Western contemporary sources. The first two centuries of the Ottoman period in Syria have been little known before the publication of this work, which sheds important light on Syria at that time.