From the Pages of the Defter (ص 20)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 20)

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every city, town, and village in the empire and record each and every property, the name of
its owner(s), its size, its location, and its monetary worth — have rarely been available for
study. This lament is widespread among Ottomanists studying every part of former Ottoman
lands.” Few of these registration books have been located and analyzed by Ottoman
scholars. Michael Provence was granted a brief permission in 1999-2000 to study property
registers of the Damascus rural region, then held at the Syrian Ministry of Agriculture in
Damascus.? Martha Mundy, Michael Fischbach and, more recently, Richard Saumarez Smith
have studied land registers and tax registers for Ottoman ‘Ajlun.*
* See, for example, Yucel Terzibasoglu, “Struggles over Land and Population Movements in North-Western
Anatolia, 1877-1914” in Mohammad Afifi, Rachida Chih, Brigitte Marino, Nicolas Michel, and Isik
Tamdogan, eds. Sociétés rurales ottomanes/ Ottoman Rural Societies (Cairo: Institut francais
d’archéologie orientale, 2005), 299; Birgit Schaebler, Practicing Musha ‘: Common Lands and the
Common Good in Southern Syria under the Ottomans and the French”, in Roger Owen, ed. New
Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle East (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University
Press, 2000), 248.
> He found that the earliest property surveys were conducted in the 1890s. See his “Ottoman and French
Mandate Land Registers for the Region of Damascus”, MESA Bulletin, 39/1 (June 2005): 32-43. These
records have since been relocated from this archive. Personal communication with Michael Provence,
May 2015.
* Michael Fischbach, State, Society, and Land in Jordan (Leiden: Brill, 2000). This study grew out of his PhD
dissertation, “State, Society and land in ‘Ajlun (northern Transjordan), 1850-1950”, PhD dissertation
(Georgetown University, 1992), Since the 1990s Martha Mundy has been studying late-Ottoman tapu
registers, tax registers, court cases, and oral history to examine issues of property, land tenure,
administration, and production in Ottoman and modern Jordan. Since the beginning of the present
century, she and Richard Saumarez-Smith have been collaborating on some of this research. Their most
comprehensive work to date is Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and
Production in Ottoman Syria (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007). Anthropologist Saumarez-Smith’s
first book, Rule by Records: Land registration and village custom in early British Panjab (Delhi: Oxford
University Press, 1996) examined British colonial construction of knowledge through its department of
land registration.

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