From the Pages of the Defter (ص 44)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 44)

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of the twentieth century, “while there was no legal obligation to register land in the tapu,
“4 This study will
there was indeed such an obligation concerning the vergi-survey.
demonstrate the utility of using these records to examine property ownership in the late-
Ottoman era.
Thirdly, this study is very much concerned with the men and women whose names fill
the lines of the emlak defter, some of them only once, some of them repeatedly. Rural
history from below is very much in its infancy in Ottoman studies. Despite the fact that the
Ottoman Empire was an agrarian empire, villagers have rarely figured as subjects of
Ottoman histories. This study exploits the em/ak register together with sharia court cases,
village history books, and Ottoman population registers to flesh out a picture of late-
Ottoman villages, villagers, and rural society in more depth than has previously been
possible.
Sources
Four types of primary sources form the core of this study. They are, firstly, the 1876 Esas-!
Emlak property-value and property-tax assessment register; secondly, sharia court cases
from the Hebron sharia court and, to a lesser extent, from the Jerusalem sharia court;
thirdly, Ottoman population registers of 1905 for the Hebron district; and, finally, Ottoman
yearbooks (sa/lnames) for the province of Syria for the 1870s. Detailed discussions of these
“ Haim Gerber, Ottoman Rule in Jerusalem 1890-1914 (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 1985), 205.
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From the Pages of the Defter

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Susynne McElrone

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