ABSTRACT

This volume deals with the history of the "common people" in the Middle East, both villagers and urban dwellers. It investigates some of the characteristic traits of the structure and development of urban and rural society in pre-modern and modern Middle Eastern history.

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Part One: Fellah and Townsman in Egypt and Syria

part |1 pages

Part Two: The Village Shaykh in Palestine

chapter 1|22 pages

The Office and Functions of the Mukhtār

chapter 2|15 pages

The Economic and Social Position

part |1 pages

Part Three: The Turkish Guilds

part |1 pages

Part Four: Urban And Rural Revolt

chapter 1|28 pages

Popular Revolt in Ottoman Cairo