From the Pages of the Defter (ص 120)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 120)

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In 1876, Wadi Fukin was a village with thirty-four residences, one mosque, and a
communally owned guest house. Each bar in the above charts represents one residence. The
lowest-valued residence in the village was an oda assessed at 375 kurus. It belonged to
Muhammad b. ‘Abd al-Qadir, who did not register any other properties. The highest-valued
residence in the village was also an oda. It was valued at 3,000 kurus. This oda, it is
worthwhile to observe, was valued significantly higher than any of the three residences that
were classified as hanes.
The villages’ residences as shown in Chart 2.2 can be divided into three broad
categories of value: nine seemingly modest residences valued at 500 kurus or less; a large
middle stratum of twenty residences valued at 750 and 1,000 kurus, and an upper stratum of
five residences, equivalent to 15 percent of the homes and each valued between 1,500 and
3,000 kurus. As far as residences are a relative indicator of wealth, it would appear that Wadi
Fukin was a socioeconomically stratified village.
When we look beyond the raw data (Chart 2.3), the picture becomes both more
complex and simpler. Five individuals in Wadi Fukin registered two or more odas in their
names. Each line of the same color on the chart connects residences registered to the same
individual. A dotted line represents the residence of a son or brother of the multiple-house
owner who is represented by the same color. For example, Muhammad b. Ahmad Hamd’s
residence, structure #30, was valued at 500 kurus. His son, ‘Ali b. Muhammad Ahmad,
registered the highest-valued residence in the village, structure #1, the 3,000-kurus oda. ‘Ali
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Susynne McElrone

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