الوكالة في المعاملات بين الحرفيين في القاهرة العثمانية : دراسة وثائقية في ضوء سجلات المحاكم الشرعية (1517-1798 م)‎

Abstract EN

The research deals with the agency system in transactions between craftsmen of various sects in Cairo during the Ottoman era.

The agency system was a followed system from ancient times, as the agent replaces the employer in the case of his absence or any circumstances that prevent his presence.

There are various agencies as the public and private agencies.

The agent replaces the principal in many important and necessary matters as social matters, economic transactions, industrial activity in particular, commercial activity, the field of buying buildings, supervising endowments and all the activities that the principal needs to the agent; such as the agency of the husband to his wife, and vice versa in many matters that concern their lives.

The system of agency still applies till date in all activities of life in Egypt.

It makes it easier for the principal in many matters as his traveling or sick and so on.

The agency system is considered one of the important topics in the history of Ottoman Egypt.

So, it’s recorded in the records of the Sharia courts and this gives the research a special importance.