Hâlid Ziyâde. Sicillâtü'l-Mahkemeti'ş-Şer'iyye 'El-Hukbetü'l-Osmâniyye': El-Menhec ve'l-Mustalah. Beyrut: El-Merkezü'l-Arabî Li'l-Ebhâs Ve Dirâseti's-Siyâsât, 2017, 336 Sayfa. ISBN: 9786144451359

Tripoli's court records include a series of court registers starting from 1666 up to end of nineteenth century. This chunk of documents contains rich information concerning the components of Tripoli’s urban population, such as clergy, craftsmen, merchants, and military personnel. The registers also compromise invaluable data about coins circulated in the city, wealth and poverty, architecture, cultural heritage, and several topics related to urban historiography. In Sicillâtü’l-Mahkemeti’ş-Şerʻiyye- “el-Hukbetü’l-Osmâniyye”: el-Menhec ve’l-Mustalah, Hâlid Ziyâde examines how researchers and urban historians make use of the court records of Tripoli, and he offers methodological suggestions regarding these records' value as archival sources.