The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 88)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 88)

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72.
by an individual?
Two important issues relating to Ottoman land policy need to be
highlighted. First, the primary interest of the Ottoman government was that of
“maintaining military preparedness, preserving urban and rural security, and
raising revenue.”* Second, the critical importance of maintaining revenue meant
that the government did not interfere with the communal ownership and use pattern
(Musha’a) in the first three and a half centuries of Ottoman rule of the Arab
provinces. Interference with the Musha’a, which predated Ottoman rule, could
have elicited strong opposition that the government avoided as long as taxes were
paid.
To put all this in a broader context, tracing the evolution of land tenure
conditions beginning with the sixteenth century (i.e., the first century of Ottoman
rule in Palestine) is essential. The emphasis is on the forms of land management
and the appropriation of the agricultural surplus. This brief sketch of the evolution
of land tenure conditions provides a historical sense of the continuities and changes
in the system. This, in turn, provides a framework within which we can better
understand the nature and dynamics of the response of Palestinian peasants to
European settlement.
Halil Inalcik, “The Emergence of Big Farms, Ciftliks: State, Landlords and
Tenants,” in Landholding and Commercial Agriculture in the Middle East, eds.
Caglar Keyder and Faruk Tabak (Albany: State University of New York Press,
1991), 20.
‘Roger Owen, The Middle East in the World Economy, 1800-1914 (London and
New York: Methuen, 1981), 10.
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