Men of Modest Substance

House Owners and House Property in Seventeenth-Century Ankara and Kayseri

By:

Suraiya Faroqhi

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

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This is a study of two contrasting towns in Anatolia in the seventeenth century. As house ownership was widespread, data concerning value, description, location and ownership of dwellings constitute a valid manner of approaching urban society as a whole. Through her use of documents from the kadi registers of Ankara and Kayseri, Dr Faroqui follows changes in patterns of house ownership over approximately a century. The urban society thus revealed differs from the patterns generally associated with the 'Islamic city' model. Townsmen often bought real estate without selecting a quarter inhabited by their co-religionists, which throws light on the Muslim majority's attitude to the Christian minority. However examples of wealthy and poor quarters were not known. The kadi registers also indicate that despite passing through a period of crisis early in the century, both culturemanaged a fairly rapid recovery from this.

Release date Australia

August 8th, 2002

Author

Suraiya Faroqhi

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

292

Series

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

Dimensions

154x230x23

ISBN-13

9780521522557

Product ID

2397638

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