Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East: Fashioning the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean

Table of Contents 1 Understanding Ottoman guilds 3 2 Guild parades in Ottoman literature : the Surname of 1582 41 3 Guild membership in seventeenth century Istanbul : fluidity in organisation 55 4 Ottoman craftsmen : problematic and sources with special emphasis on the eighteenth century 84 5 Cuha for the Janissaries - Velence for the poor : competition for raw material and workforce between Salonica and Veria, 1600-1650 121 6 The millers and bakers of Istanbul (1750-1840) 153 7 A pound of flesh : the meat trade and social struggle in Jewish Istanbul, 1700-1923 195 8 Organising labour : professional classifications in late eighteenth to early nineteenth century Cairo 235 9 Shared space or contested space : religious mixity, infrastructural hierarchy and the builders' guild in mid-nineteenth century Damascus 261 10 Relations of production and social conditions among coppersmiths in contemporary Cairo 285 11 Histories and economies of a small Anatolian town : Safranbolu and its leather handicrafts 308 12 The end of guilds in Egypt : restructuring textiles in the long nineteenth century 338