The Influence of the Military and the State Officials on the Countryside of Damascus in the Era between 992 AH and 1086 AH corresponding to 1585 AD and 1676 AD Through the Registers of Sharia Courts

Abstract

        The study will measure this impact through buying and selling land and/or the sources of production in the countryside of Damascus..
        The study will also show the impact of the political situations on the conditions of the countryside of Damascus, and the impact of the controlling powers in the period of the study on the situation of the countryside.
        This research relies on records of the Islamic courts, which give information about the economic and social changes, and living conditions as well as the components of the village in the study period.  To draw the image of the countryside of Damascus in the first Ottoman era, the study followed a method of classifying the information about the purchase of land in the countryside and who rules this procedure and agriculture.    .
        The other phase of the approach has been by tracking the trading of these groups controlling the sources of production, and how their properties have been acquired in the countryside. In the third phase, the study has measured the type and quantity of the buying and selling of properties by rural people to make it easier to hold the comparison between them and the buying and selling of the military and state employees. The conclusion has been extracted from the relationships concluded in the mentioned phases to see the development and growing of  the study groups through this listing.