Le Faubourg Du Midan a Damas a l’Epoque Ottomane

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433 pp. French text, 21 maps & plans, numerous tables, 54 b/w illustrations, introduction by Andre Raymond, biblio, index. publisher's original wrappers; Copy in (Mint Condition). An academic study of the Midan qaurter in Damascus. The author discusses the establishment of that quarter during the Mamluk period, and its development up to the Ottoman period. The primary sources used in this study were mainly based on the documents of the courts of Damascus. PIFD: 160.