Damascus Life 1480-1500: A Report of a Local Notary

by Boaz Shoshan

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004413251
• ISBN13: 9789004413252
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"