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August 1922, pp. 49–84, with different
numbering.
24 Three of the sales were from
various members of the Dalqamuni family
relating to a holding of 1½ shares out
of 36 which they had bought from ‘Awad
‘Ali Wibran, a shareholder in 1880. This
holding can be identified with that held by
Salih Dalqamuni in 1895. ACR.SC sijill 2,
1329–33AM, nos 158 [dated 25/7/1913], 160
[17/7/1913], and 161 [18/7/1913].
25 Mahmud al-Ahmad held 1½
shares in 1876 in holding 4 (see Table
9.3). In 1933 his family name is given as
Rawashida.
26 Interview with Salah al-Hasan Salih
‘Abdul-Qadir Abu Kirsanna on 24 October
1992.
27 See Figure 9.3 regarding Falha
Ahmad al-Qallab. In the case involving
the abduction of a girl from Kufrinja
mentioned in Chapter 7, one of the imprisoned
six sheikhs (meşayih) of the Bani
Hasan was named Qasim al-Qallab (BOA.
ŞD.2273/38 doc. 16, fol. 10A/17).
28 See Chapter 1, note 24, for Na’il’s
official positions. He was also listed
in 1895 as a tax-payer in at least one
other village or mezraa (DMD, pp. 94–5
interleaved after p. 838) whose identity is
unclear as the initial entries are missing.
He held two fields, valued at 105,000 and
49,900 guruş, a substantial holding.
29 DLS.AT.Yoklama, 1295–98,
pp. 202–6, dated 5 Teşrinisani 1292AM
[18/11/1876].
30 There is one exception. Musa
al-‘Uthman had one share in the first two
blocks (nos 18 and 49) but in the third
block (Z‘ar) Salih bin Mustafa al-Qadi
held Musa’s share instead (no. 80),
perhaps as a religious functionary. Salih
shared house number 37 in 1883 and his
son ‘Abdul-Qadir had holding no. 60 (of a
house, not land) in 1895.
31 Na’il and five brothers (Faris,
Muhammad, Mahmud, Khalil and Hamid
– not Hamuda and ‘Ali) held five-sixths of
the compound, while ‘Abdullah and Irhail
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al-Ahmad [‘Abid-Rabbuh], Na’il’s paternal
cousins, held one-sixth (see Figure 9.3 and
Chapter 11).
32 Na’il Gharaiba was selling the
1½ shares he had bought through Yusuf
Tawil from Musa Abu Hunada (holding
no. 9) (DLS.AT.Yoklama, 1308–09, p. 3,
nos 1–6 [July 1892]). The other half-share
sold at the same time was to ‘Ali Musa
al-Khlaif who with his father had bought
half a share from Yusuf Suwaidan in the
contested sale of 1882 and who had a
house valued at 1,000 guruş in 1883.
33 A mutation generally gives three
numbers, corresponding to the share
transferred in each block of land, and
three numbers for what remains to the
vendor. But sometimes previous purchases
are combined, sometimes not. For instance
the sale by Yusuf Tawil to Na’il Gharaiba
has nine numbers corresponding to the
purchases by Yusuf Tawil from three different
people, not three; and it is counted
here as three mutations. Mutations of title
were registered sequentially by date in
registers covering the whole district. There
were no separate files for each village.
Each mutation refers backwards to the
entries changed and forwards to the next
mutation, if there is one, citing the date
and entry number. In theory it should be
possible to start from the original tapu
register of 1876 and follow the sequence of
mutations of each holding through time.
But in practice, there were some mutations
out of sequence or without crossreferences,
and some registers were missing
or had pages missing. By contrast, vergi
tax holdings were listed village by village,
and mutations were written underneath, or
in the margin of, the entry changed, with
a reference to any new entry added to the
end of the list.
34 DLS.AT.Dabt 1920–21, pp. 91–2,
no. 9/24–6 [March 1921]. The previous
mutation in the same register concerns inheritance
among the heirs of Na’il himself.
The seven mutations following it concern
Na’il’s other brothers ‘Ali, Mahmud,
Notes to chapter 9