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Notes to chapter 8
ent administrative status, see Salname-i
Devlet (1319AH/1901–02), p. 525.
15 Salname-i Suriye xx (1305AH),
pp. 122–3.
16 Salname-i Suriye xxi (1306AH),
pp. 118–19.
17 For block assessment of the vergi
tax see Chapter 6, p. 75 on Makhraba
village.
18 For cartographic analysis of the registration
of the Bani Hasan, see Mundy:
‘Qada’ ‘Ajlun’, pp. 88–91.
19 DLS.AT.Yoklama, 1305–07, pp. 1–33.
20 Salname-i Suriye xxv (1310–11AH),
p. 228 and xxvi (1311–12AH), p. 199.
21 Salname-i Suriye xxviii
(1313–14AH), p. 197.
22 Salname-i Suriye xxv (1310–11AH),
p. 228.
23 Salname-i Suriye xxvii (1312–13AH),
p. 21; besides al-Ka’id, the members included
Yusuf al-Da’ud and Muflih al-Jabr
of the ‘Ubaidat from Hartha and Kufr
Saum, Muhammad Shannaq of Saum al-
Shannaq, Na’il al-Gharaiba of Hawwara,
Muhammad al-Hamud of Aidun, ‘Awwad
al-Hijazi of Irbid and Ahmad al-Nu‘man
whose origin we cannot identify.
24 Salname-i Suriye xxviii (1313–
14AH), p. 198; xxix (1315AH), p. 205.
25 Salname-i Suriye xxviii
(1313–14AH), p. 198. A Sulaiman al-‘Ali
also served on the municipal council.
26 Salname-i Suriye xxix (1315AH),
p. 204.
27 See BOA.ŞD.2276\15, 2276\25,
2276\32, 2276\42.
28 See BOA.DH.SN.THR 1805 15\56,
2114 18\51, 3050 27\98. Compare the document
from the Interior Ministry requiring
persons and property in the central Hauran
to be registered in Abu Fakhr: Ta’rikh
liwa’ Hauran, p. 353.
29 Salname-i Suriye xxii (1307AH/1889–
90), p. 127 and xxiii (1308–09/1890–91),
p. 128 where the mülazım was Ibrahim
Sa‘d al-Din of the ‘Ubaidat. In subsequent
years other major rural leaders served
as mülazım. In 1894–95 the number of
268
mülazım members was increased to two,
with Yusuf al-Sharaida and Muflih ibn Jabr
‘Ubaidat occupying the posts: Salname-i
Suriye xxvii (1312–13AH/1895), p. 211.
30 Salname-i Suriye xxxii (1318AH),
p. 213.
31 The witnesses are described as
muarrif and şahit and their action as
tasdik.
32 Compare Chapter 9, p. 136. This
information derives from the entries for
the village of Hawwara; we are not certain
that the survey covered all villages of the
district.
33 On the central Hauran see
Schilcher, ‘The Hauran conflicts of the
1860s’, IJMES xiii (1981), 159–79 and
‘Violence in rural Syria in the 1880s and
1890s’, in Kazemi and Waterbury (eds),
Peasants and Politics in the Modern
Middle East (1991), pp. 50–84 and
Schäbler, Aufstände im Drusenbergland
(1996). For resistance to acquisition, see
Fischbach: ‘Al-Mukhayba’.
34 Compare on Yanya province,
İslamoğlu: ‘Property’, pp. 36–9. The 1858
Land Code is explicitly phrased in terms
of awarding right to cultivators. There is
also evidence that this was policy among
officials appointed from the centre at the
Syrian provincial level: BOA.ŞD.2272\86.
35 Neocleous, Administering Civil
Society (1996).
36 ACR.CC 1918–22, qarar asas
153/116, dated 7 June 1919 at the time of
the Faisal government.
37 ACR.CC 1918–22, qarar asas 68/918
where Fallah Klaib al-Sharaida is accused
of violating the virginity (izalat al-bakara)
of a six-year-old girl and breaking the
arm of her father, only to have the first
accusation dropped from the proceedings
statements of the public prosecutor dated
24 February 1919 and 2 March 1919; and
qarar asas 49/23, where ‘Abdullah Klaib
Sharaida is accused of the murder of a
man named Ibrahim from the village of
Kufr al-Ma’ only to have the case dropped
for lack of evidence, dated 24 April 1920.