This volume brings together some thirty essays in a Festschrift in honour of Abdul-Karim Rafeq, the leading historian of Ottoman Syria, touching on themes in socio-economic history which have been Rafeq's principal academic concerns.
ABDUL KARIM RAFEQ, HISTORIAN OF SYRIA: SOME PERSONAL
OBSERVATIONS Ulrike Freitag This paper is not intended as a strictly academic
analysis of the work of Abdul-Karim Rafeq. Instead, it is meant as a way of
thanking him for ...