Governing property, making the modern state - PSI424

Notes to chapter 7
36 BOA.ŞD.2273/38, Document 18.
37 BOA.ŞD.2273/38, Document 18, fol.
6a/9. When asked who gives the orders for
appointments, Siyur answers that ‘some
orders were issued on the basis of an
oral instruction from the mutasarrıf and
some on the same from the kaimakam.
Some after being held in the mutasarrıfiye
are given to the kaimakam; sometimes
the person appointed goes to salute and
thank the mutasarrıf. Then with a line
of soldiers preceding him, he goes to the
room of the court of first instance and
there in the presence of the officials of the
court, the order of appointment is read
out and the written order given to the
müdür. Sometimes I read the order out in
the district headquarters in the presence
of some cavalry and the headmen of the
nahiye. That is all I know.’
38 BOA.ŞD.2273/38, Document 18, fol.
6b/11: bu da o vakit[te] muharrem bir şey
değil idi.
39 BOA.ŞD.2273/38, Document 19.
40 BOA.ŞD.2277/21.
41 Jago, PRO.FO.78\3130, fols 320–22
dated 20 April 1880. Compare the phrase
‘renegade jew’ to the silence about the governor’s
religious background in the official
papers and to Salih al-Tall’s understanding
that ‘Abbada remained Jewish, see note 1
above.
42 The Commission first appears as
an investigative commission for the lands
of liva Hauran and begins work in ‘Ajlun
district in 1883, compare Chapter 8, note 6.
43 Mundy: ‘Shareholders’, p. 237, n. 34.
44 In Robinson and Smith: Biblical Researches,
vol. 3, p. 166, al-‘Arba‘in is given
as a village of the Kura nahiye; in short,
that area of the Ghaur had belonged to the
area of tax collection of the Sharaida of
Tibna.
45 For contemporary studies of two
villages in this area see Ghannam, ‘Qariyat
al-Harrawiya’ and Ziyadeh, ‘Qariyat Tall
al-Arba‘in’, in Mundy (ed.), al-Qariya
ma bain al-numuw wa-’l-takhtit (1990),
pp. 48–83 and 84–120.
266
46 See DLS.AT.Daimi, 1304AM, p. 68
for the notice of first decision as being 25
Kanunusani 1304AM. The lands were said
to have been evaluated at 30 paras per
dönüm which would give a total area of
156,000 dönüms. This vast area is bounded
on the south by Ghaur al-Fara and the village
of Sila, to the east by the mountains
of al-Kura nahiye, to the north by wadi al-
Taiba, and to the west by the Jordan River
(şeriat nehri). The owner duly inscribed
was the ‘sultan el-Gazi Abdul-Hamit Han,
son of sultan Abdul-Mecit Han, may he
rest in heaven’.
47 DLS.AT.Yoklama, 1300AM, pp. 74–5
for Zubiya and pp. 149–52 for Kufr Abil.
48 DLS.AT.Yoklama, 1299–1301,
pp. 38–55 for tree plantings, pp. 56–71
for houses and pp. 210–59 for miri landholdings.
49 Ayman al-Sharayda is working on
an analysis of the 1895 tax register for
Tibna. This should allow a finer analysis.
50 The names registered in the tapu
(DLS.AT.Yoklama, 1299–1301AM, pp.
232–53) correspond to those in the
genealogy of the Sharaida family in Peake:
Ta’rikh, p. 458.
51 DLS.AT.Yoklama, 1299–1301AM,
p. 229, entry number 925.
52 DLS.AT.Yoklama, 1300AM,
pp. 37–55, entries 343–682.
53 The reason to think that Muhra is
his mother (‘Abd al-Qadir’s wife) is that
his father’s brothers Jurdan and Klaib have
as co-holder in their share one Muhammad
ibn Khamis, probably the brother of
Muhra.
54 It is possible that Amina was the
mother not the wife of Mahmud, but
as her father Mustafa was still alive and
holding olive trees, we believe she was
Mahmud’s wife.
55 Fischbach: State, pp. 189–90;
Yunus, The Articulation of Civil Law and
Customary Law, Unpublished MA thesis
(1987).
56 Fischbach: State, pp. 188–90.
57 See the genealogies for Sa‘d al-Din