ahi

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[Guilds and Popular Culture]
The common people, from prostitutes and day laborers to wealthy merchants, were all incorporated into some kind of social organization, the core of which was the merchant and artisan guild. Turkish guilds inherited the traditions of Arab futuwa and were based on the ahi, akhī, a religious youth organization that developed in Anatolia in the 13th and 14th centuries, and had close ties with Sufi orders (tariqas). In Istanbul in the 15th and 16th centuries, the ahi organizations were gradually placed under bureaucratic control and secularized, and it is said that they were separated from the Sufi orders and transformed into guilds by occupation. The guilds were autonomous organizations with mechanisms for maintaining internal autonomy, but on the other hand, they were not easily controlled by qādis or muhtesips (muhtāsibs)....

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［ギルドと民衆文化］
　民衆は，売春婦，日雇労働者から富裕な商人にいたるまですべてなんらかの社会的組織に組み込まれていたが，その中核は商工民のギルドであった。トルコのギルドは，アラブのフトゥッワの伝統を受け継ぎつつ，13～14世紀のアナトリアに発展した同信的若者組織アヒーahi,akhīを母体とし，スーフィー諸教団(タリーカ)と密接な関係をもっていたが，15～16世紀のイスタンブールにおいてアヒー組織はしだいに官僚的統制下におかれて世俗化し，スーフィー教団との分離が進んで，職種別のギルドへと転化したといわれている。ギルドは自主的組織をもち内部自治を維持する仕組みをもってはいたが，反面ではカーディーやムフテシプmuhtesip(ムフタシブ。…

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