Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire: Employment and Mobility in the Early Modern Era

by Suraiya Faroqhi

It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities - since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could leave their villages. According to this view, only soldiers and members of the governing elite would have been free to travel. However, Suraiya Faroqhi's extensive archival research shows that this was not the case; pious men from all walks of life...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780764812
• ISBN13: 9781780764818
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"