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Men of Modest Substance: House Owners and House Property in Seventeenth-Century Ankara and Kayseri

Men of Modest Substance: House Owners and House Property in Seventeenth-Century Ankara and Kayseri

Faroqhi, Suraiya
Suraiya, Faroqhi
Morgan, David

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

General Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521522552
ISBN13: 9780521522557
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 8 2002
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.86 Depth: 9.08
Language: English
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 cultures managed a fairly rapid recovery from this.

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