Overlaps and Takeovers
After the 1885 Ottoman population census, new responsibilities were added to their list of duties, and the muhtars were required…
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A Case of Peaceful Transition: Imam and Muhtar in Kasap ƒlyas
The precise mode of selection and/or appointment of the first muhtars in the Istanbul mahalles in the 1830s and 1840s…
The Benefits of Local Power: The Case of Aziz Mahmud Efendi
Aziz Mahmud Efendi (d. ca. 1845) had a very long tenure as imam of the Kasap ƒlyas mosque. His signature…
The Imam and His Revenues
When the imam was trustee of a pious foundation endowed with real estate property, every operation on this property could…
The Imam with the Forty Keys
What is crucial from the point of view of intraneighborhood relationships is not that many of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century…
The Imam and His Congregation
As shown by local vakıf documents of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries,5 the imam of the Kasap ƒlyas mosque…