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Notes to chapters 5 and 6
6 On the Bani Hasan see Mundy:
‘Qada’ ‘Ajlun’, pp. 88–91.
7 Taminian, ‘‘Ain’, in Mundy and
Saumarez Smith (eds), Part-Time Farming
(1990), pp. 13–19.
8 Schumacher, Northern ‘Ajlun (1890),
p. 87; Quteifan, Family, Kinship and
Economic Structure in a Village of North
Jordan’, Unpublished MA thesis (1988).
9 Fischbach, ‘Al-Mukhaiba village’,
Dirasat xxi/1 (1994), pp. 46–71.
10 Unfortunately, we have only limited
information from the registers for centres
of considerable importance, notably
al-Nu‘aima in the plains, Jarash and its
villages, Kufrinja and Rajib. In so far as
possible, then, Maps 5.5, 5.6 and 5.7 must
be corrected – in imagination!
6 The introduction of bureaucratic
registration
1 BOA.Kamil Kepeci Defterleri 6554,
May 1265/1849. See the lists of Eli Smith,
published in Robinson and Smith, Biblical
Researches in Palestine (1841) vol. 3,
pp. 162–7 for the Jabal ‘Ajlun. Attempts
under Egyptian occupation to increase
direct control faced revolt: see al-Sharayda,
Dirasat watha’iqiya li-jabal ‘Ajlun (1995).
2 The latter is suggested by the problematic
title of an otherwise valuable study
of the region just to the south of ‘Ajlun:
Rogan, Frontiers of the State in the Late
Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850–1921
(1999).
3 For the vilayet as a whole see the
useful survey based on European consular
records by Max Gross, Ottoman Rule in
the Province of Damascus 1860–1909,
Unpublished PhD dissertation (1979). For
earlier attempts to establish direct Ottoman
government in the area, see Rogan:
Frontiers, pp. 44–8 and Fischbach, State,
Society, and Land in ‘Ajlun (Northern
Transjordan) 1850–1950, Unpublished PhD
dissertation (1992), pp. 75–86.
4 BOA.BEO, Vilayet Gelen-Giden Kayıt
Defterleri, vol. 347, Suriye, Giden, p. 55,
no. 18 dated 8 Haziran 1281AM, for tapu
258
registration in the districts and p. 207, 8
Haziran 1282 for the election of members
to the Emlak Komisyonu.
5 Suriye, 4 Mayıs 1282AM. Most of the
issues 1–476 are preserved in the Millet
Kütüphanesi, İstanbul.
6 Gross: Ottoman Rule, pp. 116–67.
7 Salname-i Suriye i (1285AH/1868–69),
pp. 56–7: arazi memuru ünvaniyle tapu baş
katibi and two refiks.
8 Idem. These nahiyes largely correspond
to the districts noted by Burckhardt,
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land (1822),
pp. 288–9. See the discussion in Abu
’l-Sha‘r: Irbid, pp. 168–9.
9 A European traveller F. A. Klein reported
that in 1868 the local leader Hasan
Barakat Furayhat of Kufrinja had been recognized
as mudir of the Jabal ‘Ajlun nahiye
– Rogan, ‘Al-Salt, Jabal ‘Ajlun, and the
advent of direct Ottoman rule’, Dirasat xv
(1988), p. 37: ‘In the afternoon we reached
Kufrenji… This is the seat of a kind of
sub-governor they call here “Effendi”. This
Effendi has under him the district of Jebl
Ajloon and is himself under the direction
of a Governor residing at Irbid, north of
Husn. … These belong to the ancient and
very influential family of the “Fureihat”,
who were formerly the lords of this district
but the new system of government has
made an end to the influence and power of
this and similar great families.’ Kufrinja
was not easily governed from Irbid.
10 Salname-i Suriye ii (1286AH/1869–
70), p. 101. Yusuf Efendi Sharaida was also
to serve in 1872–74 before being succeeded
by his son ‘Abd al-Qadir on the administrative
council from 1877: Salname-i Suriye
iv (1289AH), p.103; v (1290AH), p. 94; ix
(1294AH), p. 113.
11 We are not able to identify the last
figure with certainty.
12 The Mudhakkirat of Salih al-Tall
(a copy of which was graciously given us
by Eugene Rogan) stresses this aspect. So
does more recent scholarship: Fischbach:
State, pp. 51–86 and 164–78 and Abu
’l-Sha‘r: Irbid, pp. 167–86. Abu ’l-Sha‘r