Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy

Tax Collection and Finance Administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560-1660

von Linda T Darling

368 Seiten, Leder-/Kunstleder- oder Prachteinband

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This study examines for the first time the finance procedures and documents of the post-classical Ottoman Empire. It provides an overview of institutional and monetary history and a detailed description of assessment and collection processes for Cizye, Avariz and Iltizam-collected taxes, the documents produced by these processes, and the information they contain. The finance department's detailed record-keeping, procedural continuity, and provision of economic justice made it a bulwark of stability in a period of turmoil.For specialists, this book introduces a multitude of sources on the economic and social history of the post-classical age, while for comparativists it places the empire in its seventeenth-century context. It links Ottoman administrative change with early modern state formation and reformulates the seventeenth century as a period of consolidation, not decline.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens
• ISBN: 9789004102897
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.1996
• Größe: 246 x 166 mm
• Verlag: Brill