Revenue-raising and legitimacy: tax collection and finance administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560 - 1660

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 documen...

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1. Verfasser: Darling, Linda T. 1945- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 1996
Schriftenreihe:The Ottoman Empire and its heritage 6
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:368 S.
ISBN:9004102892

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