Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy: Tax Collection and Finance Administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560-1660This 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. |
Contents
The Myth of Decline | 1 |
Classical Ottoman Finance | 22 |
The Monetary System and the Price Revolution | 35 |
Price Inflation in the Ottoman Empire 15551655 | 36 |
Population and Economic Change | 41 |
The Ottoman Central Finance Department | 49 |
Total Numbers of Salaried Scribes | 59 |
The Structure of the Maliye in the MidSixteenth Century | 63 |
SeventeenthCentury Cizye | 112 |
Avarız Rates in Text 15001660 | 114 |
Avarız Assessed around 1640 | 116 |
Taxation Without Assessment? | 119 |
Tax Collection Remittance and Reporting | 186 |
Arrears Accounting and BalanceSheets | 213 |
Complaints and Corruption | 246 |
RevenueRaising and Legitimacy | 281 |
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