Title Revenue-raising and legitimacy : tax collection and finance administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560-1660 / by Linda T. Darling

Published Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 368 pages) Series The Ottoman Empire and its heritage, 1380-6076 ; v. 6 Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 6. 1380-6076 Contents Identification of Archival Sources -- Introduction: The Myth of Decline -- I. Classical Ottoman Finance. Ottoman Taxation. Revenue Assessment by Survey (Tahrir). The Monetary System and the Price Revolution. Population and Economic Change -- II. The Ottoman Central Finance Department. Early Finance Department Organization. Reorganizations in the Finance Structure. The Seventeenth Century and Beyond -- III. Revenue Assessment by the Central Finance Department: Cizye and Avariz. Revenue Surveying by the Finance Bureaus. Registration of Taxpayers and Population Estimation. Amounts of Money Taken in Tax -- IV. Taxation Without Assessment? Tax Farming (Iltizam). Mukataa Revenues and Records. Bidding and Revenue Amounts. Bidders' Conditions and Personnel Recruitment. Iltizam Supervision -- V. Tax Collection Personnel. Appointment of Revenue Collectors. The Military in Cizye and Avariz Collection. The Military in Tax Farming -- VI. Tax Collection, Remittance, and Reporting Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Taxation -- Turkey -- History Tax collection -- Turkey -- History Tax administration and procedure -- Turkey -- History Economic history Tax administration and procedure Tax collection Taxation Finanzverwaltung Steuerpolitik Steuersystem Belastingheffing. Financiële administratie. Finances publiques -- Empire ottoman -- 1500-1800. SUBJECT Turkey -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138790 Subject Turkey Osmanisches Reich Empire ottoman -- Conditions économiques -- Histoire. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9004661042 9789004661042

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