From the Pages of the Defter (ص 18)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 18)

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Introduction
This study is about land tenure and the implementation and adoption of property-tenure
reforms in the rural areas of the Hebron district (qada) of southern Palestine during and
after the Tanzimat. The 1858 Land Code marked the beginning of property-tenure reform in
the Ottoman Empire. It is widely viewed by scholars as one of the most significant
modernizing evolutions in Ottoman law. The Code, together with a series of laws that
followed it over the following decades, rewrote the legal system of land tenure in the
empire, institutionalizing individual, broadly inheritable title to all land and property.
Attestation to the significance of these reforms is their legacy. The influence of Ottoman
conventions of land tenure has been present in Ottoman-successor governments and states
in Bilad al-Sham (Greater Syria) region until today.
Despite their recognized significance and enduring legacy, a large body of literature
over the past century and today characterizes the implementation of these reforms in the
empire as a failure. A dismal failure, in fact. This view is most pronounced when the
geographical parameters of investigation are the provinces of historical Palestine. It is

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From the Pages of the Defter

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Susynne McElrone

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