Selçuk, Oya İklilFaroqhi, S.2018-07-112018-07-112015-02-01978-1-78238-558-5http://hdl.handle.net/10679/5837This chapter addresses the fundamental, yet unanswered, question of when and how formal hierarchically organized guilds appeared in Ottoman towns. In doing so, 15th century Bursa court records are scrutinized.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccessTracing esnaf in late fifteenth-century Bursa court recordsBook chapter5169Ottoman guildsEsnafBursa esnafCourt recordsEarly modern Ottoman townsGuild hierarchyAhis2-s2.0-84937029761