Streets and Houses
There was a fundamental change in the layout of the streets and in the distribution of the houses that had…
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The Administered Body: Early Nineteenth-Century Perspectives
There was neither a cadastral land survey nor a title-deed registry of any sort in the pre-nineteenth-century Ottoman cities. All…
Overlaps and Takeovers
After the 1885 Ottoman population census, new responsibilities were added to their list of duties, and the muhtars were required…
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…