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This paper introduces methods to estimate wealth levels and disparities among Muslim inhabitants of 18th-century Ottoman Kastamonu. Our sources in this pursuit are estate inventories of the deceased (sing. tereke) as recorded in Kastamonu court records (sicils), mainly in the first half of the 18th century (1712-60). By analyzing information provided by these sources through a variety of quantitative techniques, we measure levels of inequality among Muslims of Kastamonu and describe the relationship between economic privilege and social, political, religious, and occupational status as well as gender identity. Our work outlines the contours of economic stratification in 18thcentury Kastamonu and reveals the relative positions of various social groups within this hierarchy.Kastamonu was a middle-to small-sized town in north-central Anatolia. By the mid-18th century, Kastamonu subprovince (sancak), located on the Black Sea coast and part of the province (eyalet) of Anatolia, probably had a population of about 30,000 households. The town of Kastamonu-the legal and administrative center of the subprovincehad a population of about 4,000 households, including the inhabitants of its forty-one quarters and the villages located nearby. 1 Little information exists about the town's demographic composition during the period we are discussing, although we assume that its population was primarily Muslim and Turkish. 2 Heywood claims that the town remained relatively isolated during Ottoman times due to its distance from the military and courier road network. 3 Even though court records indicate local and regional trade networks in the area that involved wool, cotton cloth, and copperware, it is not clear to what extent these networks contributed to the town's economic welfare. Compared to other Anatolian urban centers such as Ankara, Bursa, and Kayseri, Kastamonu has not received much attention in modern scholarship. However, because the town's court records are quite complete relative to its size, they are well suited to the type of analysis presented here.Like many subthemes of economic history, inequality and wealth distribution have not received much attention in Ottoman historiography. In this article, we propose different procedures to measure wealth and inequality levels in a particular historical setting.

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This article investigates the relationship between inheritance and wealth in the context of eighteenth-century Ottoman Kastamonu. Based on the estate inventories of the deceased (sing. tereke) as recorded in Kastamonu court records (sicils), the article introduces a variety of quantitative techniques to measure the impact of Islamic inheritance practices on wealth accumulation across subsequent generations and to understand how it influenced wealth mobility among various socioeconomic groups. The estimations provided in this article suggest that while the inheritance practice in Kastamonu caused wealth fragmentation, the process also contributed to the durability of economic divisions within the provincial Ottoman society.