مظاهر من الحياة الاقتصادية في دمشق و جوارها خلال القرن الثامن عشر الميلادي

Abstract EN

This study tends to approach various economic sides of the history of Ottoman Damascus Eighteenth Century, the period during which the Ottoman Empire embarked on reviving some sort of central management and recontrol over the security which seems to have gone much worse in the early years of the 18 th century as a result of the repeated assaults on the Shami pilgrims.

Eventually, this caused Damascus to occupy a better situation than before according to this tendency.

This study, through a group of local and formal Ottoman references, aims at studying the economy of Damascus city by exposing the status of the city and the factors that led to its economic prosperity, one of most important is the safety of pilgrimage and the safety of the conveys.

This study comes in an introduction, and five chapters as well as aprécis as follows : 1.

Damascus and its economic status.

2.

The economic rule of pilgrimage.

3.

The economic activities.

4.

Commerce and the size of fortune.

5.

The coins in use.