TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shoshan,Boaz
TI  - Damascus life 1480-1500: a report of a local notary 
T2  - Islamic History and Civilization
SN  - 9789004413269
AV  - DS99.D3 S67 2020
U1  - 956.91/4402 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Ibn Ṭawq, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,
KW  - Arabs
KW  - Syria
KW  - Damascus
KW  - Diaries
KW  - Notaries
KW  - Damascus (Syria)
KW  - History
KW  - 15th century
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ibn Ṭawq, his family, household, and close friends -- Damascus ca. 1480-1500 : a city in crisis -- The shaykh al-Islām : a giant in an embattled world of scholars -- Bourgeois fortunes -- The court : dispute and crime -- The family : marriage, divorce, and the household
N2  - "In Damascus Life 1480-1500: A Report of a Local Notary Boaz Shoshan offers a microhistory of the largest Syrian city at the end of the Mamluk period and on the eve of the Ottoman conquest. Mainly based on a partly preserved diary, the earliest available of its kind and written by Ibn Ṭawq, a local notary, it portrays the life of a lower middle class who originated from the countryside and who, through marriage, was able to become a legal clerk and associate with scholars and bureaucrats. His diary does not only provide us with unique information on his family, social circle and the general situation in Damascus, but it also sheds light on subjects of which little is known, such as the functioning of the legal system, marriage and divorce, bourgeois property and the mores of the common people"
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004413269
ER  -