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grocer. Hajj Ibrahim was married with three sons, two daughters, and five grandchildren.*”
Circumstantial evidence introduces the possibility that their father may have been a
moneylender, too. In 1876 he had registered an eight-dunam vineyard in Taffuh.*“® In 1869
he had purchased, bay’ w‘ad,a house (dar) in the Hebron neighborhood of al-Shaykh ‘Ali
Bak’a in exchange for a loan of twenty gold liras, equivalent to 2,000 kurus.*””
The court record of the Bayt Kahil case states incidentally that in 1895 Hajj Ibrahim
already owned property in Jamrura, at Sihlat al-Khasb, which bordered the Ruweisat plot
that he was now buying on mortgage with his brothers. (See Table 4.4, above.) Whether this
was actual ownership or temporary ownership, that is, acquired through a recent mortgage
loan, cannot be determined. The court case further states that Hajj Ibrahim was already
entitled to “one-fifth plus one-fourth of one-fifth” of the harvests of the land now being
mortgaged. (He may have been the owner of the five shares which were not being sold.)
Michael Fischbach has noted in ‘Ajlun, in northern Transjordan, that the khums was a
common way of reckoning the owners’ share in sharecropping. A sharecropper would
supply, for example, the animals, tools and labor, and the owners of the land would supply
“7” is sons were ‘Abd al-Matlab, Shakir and Shaykh Muhammad Y‘aqub. In 1905, it was recorded that the
first two were also merchants fluent in Arabic.
“4g ISA, Esas-i Emlak, entry # 6562.
“° HR 3/65 / 152 (22 Rajab 1286 / 28 October 1869). For conversion to kurus, | rely on Bussow’s
calculations (Appendix Four: Currencies, Prices and Salaries) in Bussow (2011): 563.
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