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Title Islamic urbanism in human history : political power and social networks / edited by Sato Tsugitaka
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2009

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Description 1 online resource : maps
Contents Ch. 1. Political power and social networks : popular coexistence and state oppression in Ottoman Syria / Abdul-Karim Rafeq -- ch. 2. Administrative networks in the Mamluk period : taxation, legal execution, and bribery / Miura Toru -- ch. 3. Informal networks : the construction of politics in urban Egypt / Diane Singerman -- ch. 4. Political power and social-religious networks in sixteenth-century fes / Mohamed Mezzine -- ch. 5. The pastoral city and the mausoleum city : nomadic rule and city construction in the Eastern Islamic world / Haneda Masashi -- ch. 6. Water village until the foundation of the land-based settlement : a Malay Muslim community and state in Brunei Darussalam / Iik A. Mansurnoor -- ch. 7. Elites, notables and social networks of eighteenth-century Hama / James A. Reilly
Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed December 18, 2012)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Islamic cities and towns -- Arab countries -- History
Power (Social sciences) -- Arab countries
Social networks -- Arab countries
Urbanization -- Arab countries
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Islamic cities and towns
Power (Social sciences)
Social networks
Urbanization
Arab countries
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Satō, Tsugitaka, 1942-2011
ISBN 9781136169526
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