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

ISBN: 9004413251

ISBN13: 9789004413252

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

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...

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