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 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.

About the author

Linda T. Darling, Ph.D. (1990) in History, University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arizona. She has published articles on the Ottoman fiscal system and finance documents.

Product details

• Authors: Linda T Darling, Linda T. Darling
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.1996
• EAN: 9789004102897
• ISBN: 978-90-04-10289-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 246 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 812 g
• Series: Ottoman Empire and Its Heritag
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous