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  • Evaluating political flexibility of the ottomans: urban population and the exemption from extraordinary taxes on the western ottoman borders, c. 1548 - 1604
    Kasumović, Fahd
    The main goal of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of political flexibility of the Ottomans by researching state decisions that led to exempting urban population in the frontier ... sanjaks of Bosnia, Herzegovina, Zvornik and Klis from paying extraordinary taxes (avârìz-ì dîvâniyye). Particularly, attention is paid to identifying the discourse of state officials, the diversity of reasons stated by the government in granting tax exemptions to the population of frontier towns, the background of exemptions, their links with the interests/needs of the state, as well as to changes that occurred over time in the tax status of the mentioned groups. Together with that, efforts were made in making parallels with state policies towards inland provinces and other internal peripheries of the Ottoman Empire. The basis for the analysis consists of various cadastral survey registers (tâpu tahrîr defter), compiled from the fourth decade of the 16th century to the beginning of the 17th century. Finally, the interpretation of those primary sources is intended to contribute to further reassessment of traditional narratives on the Orient and Orientals, particularly to deconstruction of overly generalised and essentialistically understood images of their supposed inertness and indolence of mind.
    Vrsta građe - izlaganje na konferenciji
    Godina - 2017
    Jezik - engleski
    COBISS.BH-ID - 9681945