From the Pages of the Defter (ص 246)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 246)

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There are two factors we should bear in mind when trying to assess/interpret the economic
situation of the Kahili villagers, based on the low price they took in exchange for their land
and the seemingly high interest they agreed to pay. Firstly, these terms were not unusual. In
Hebron, an examination of court records for the period under study shows that urbanites
from all socioeconomic strata were the most frequent mortgaging borrowers in the sharia
court. They also took loans-as-mortgages according to terms similar to the Kahilis’ mortgage
terms. For example, three months after the Bayt Kahil case, two shaykhly sons from the
Qal’a neighborhood of Hebron, members of the prestigious Dari-Bakri family and sons of a
father who bore the titles Shaykh Effendi, took a loan (istidana) of 2,395 kurus from three
children of one deceased Husayn Effendi, who was the Yuzbasi of the Army Reserves (redif),
and his widow Fatima bt. Yusif Arnaut (“Albanian”), the children’s legal guardian (wasia). As
collateral, the Dari-Bakris sold (bay’) them a plot of their land, of unspecified size, with fig
424 The mortgaged parcel was surrounded by
and quince trees, grape vines and a stone sira
vineyards which the Dari-Bakris also owned. The deal also included the price of “two
watches”, recorded as being a present (mawhuba), the payment of which was delayed for
424 According to Suad al-Amiri and Faras Rihal’s Mandatir: Qusir al-mazar’! fi Rif Filastin (Mantaras:
Agricultural Palaces in the Palestinian Countryside) (Ramallah: Riwaq, 2003), a sira is a structure found
widely in the vineyards of the Hebron region and served as residence during the grape harvests (115)
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