Introduction: Towards a new perspective of Islamic urban societies from a suburban quarter of Damascus
1. Madrasas and waqfs in Damascus: the basis of urban development
2. Formation of the Ṣāliḥiyya quarter in the northern suburbs in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods
3. The structure and transformation of the Ṣāliḥiyya quarter
4. Administrative networks in the late Mamluk period: taxation and bribery
5. Urban society in Damascus at the end of the Mamluk period: emergence of jama?a (factions) and zu?r (outlaws)
6. Ambiguous relations between religious institutions and waqf properties at the beginning of Ottoman rule
7. Personal networks surrounding the Ṣāliḥiyya court in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
8. Formality and reality in shari?a court records: socio-economic relations in the Ṣāliḥiyya quarter in the nineteenth century
9. Changes in waqf institutions and the internal organisation of the quarter at the beginning of the twentieth century
Conclusion: Dynamism of personal networks and social justice.