Rafeq, Abdul-Karim

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This volume honours the work of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the foremost historian of Ottoman Syria. Rafeq's principal contribution to the study of the social history of Syria between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries lies in his pioneering use of the resources of the Islalmic court…

This volume honours the work of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the foremost historian of Ottoman Syria. Rafeq's principal contribution to the study of the social history of Syria between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries lies in his pioneering use of the resources of the Islalmic court…

This volume honours the work of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the foremost historian of Ottoman Syria. Rafeq's principal contribution to the study of the social history of Syria between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries lies in his pioneering use of the resources of the Islalmic court…

Damascus (Dimashq) was occupied by the Ottoman sultan Selim (Selīm) I (r. 918–26/1512–20) on 1 Ramaḍān 922/28 September 1516. Selim had already defeated the army of the Mamlūk sultan at Marj Dābiq, north of Aleppo, on 25 Rajab 922/24 August 1516, and then occupied Aleppo, where …