8vo. x, [1], 219 pp., original cloth, biblio, index, neat pencil markings on few pages, otherwise copy in mint condition, Volume 23 in the series The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, Brill, Leiden / Boston, first edition, 2001.

Synopsis

Based on official Ottoman records found in the registers of the kadi’s court in Jerusalem as well as the Prime Ministry’s Archives in Istanbul, the present study offers a thorough treatment of Ottoman policy with respect to the Holy Sites during the first two centuries of Ottoman rule in Jerusalem. It focuses on three principal issues: (a) The legal status of the Holy Sites under Ottoman rule; (b) The Ottoman state and the inter-church struggle over the Holy Sites; (c) The Holy Sites as a source of income to the Ottoman state.
The discussion of these issues sheds new light on one of the most obscure and controversial chapters in the history of Christianity under Islam in Jerusalem. [Brill]