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Alsabagh, Munther H.

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Before Banks: Credit, Society, and Law in Sixteenth-Century Palestine and Syria.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Before Banks: Credit, Society, and Law in Sixteenth-Century Palestine and Syria./
Author:	Alsabagh, Munther H.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	406 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-09A(E).
Subject:	Middle Eastern history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10752417
ISBN:	9780355876758

Before Banks: Credit, Society, and Law in Sixteenth-Century Palestine and Syria.
Alsabagh, Munther H.

Before Banks: Credit, Society, and Law in Sixteenth-Century Palestine and Syria. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 406 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018.

This dissertation is a social-legal study of credit in the Middle East before the advent of European-style banking institutions in the 1850s. Although scholars have long observed the importance of credit in daily life since ancient times, little attention has been given to the transformation of credit institutions and practices between the late medieval and early modern eras. This study evaluates how credit structures developed in Syria and Palestine during the long sixteenth century through the lens of Islamic law. While the legalization of market interest and the charitable lending institution known as the cash- waqf are rightly attributed as major interventions of Ottoman Law, I demonstrate how both were underpinned by the Ottoman state-approved legal stratagem of the mu'amala, a credit structure that was widely used in Mamluk Syria and Palestine (1250-1516). In the first two chapters, I argue that rather than being a radical move, the Ottoman contribution was in refining and regularizing the use of the mu'amala, , as reflected in Ottoman legal literature, jurist manuals, and the state's law courts. The sixteenth century Ottoman legal reforms on credit, I contend, present a continuity of the credit norms of the fifteenth century and represent a clear evolution from Mamluk antecedents.

ISBN: 9780355876758Subjects--Topical Terms:

3168386
Middle Eastern history.

Before Banks: Credit, Society, and Law in Sixteenth-Century Palestine and Syria.
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