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46 Na’il Gharaiba was represented
by the central judicial administration
as muhtar-ı lahik, official headman (see
Chapter 6, note 45), while the complainants
said he was an outsider.
47 The figure of 43 houses includes the
Gharaiba compound registered in 1882, 41
houses registered in 1883 (excluding five
repeats including the storeroom and stable)
and one house registered in 1889 belonging
to ‘Abdul-Jalil As‘ad Shuha (holder of two
shares in 1876, no. 3).
48 Thus ‘Abdul-Rahman Salih Muhafiza
(holding two houses in 69 but no land)
is not included in the landless figure as his
brother Bayir had half a share of land in
holding 78. For Salih al-Qadi see note 30
above. ‘A’isha bint Salih [al-Haddad] held
no. 18 (a house) whose father held no. 35
(both house and land). Her mother’s
father, Salama Abu ‘Awwad, had held
house 32 in 1883. Qasim Abu ‘Awwad had
holding no. 1 in 1895 (a house). ‘A’isha
inherited her father’s entire share and
sold it to her mother Nasra bint Salama
Abu ‘Awwad (DLS.AT.Zabt 1323–24,
p. 5, nos 3–5 [June 1907]) who remarried
‘A’isha’s FBS, Mahmud al-Mustafa (son of
holder no. 33 with one share of land) by
whom she had one son ‘Abdullah. Nasra
in turn sold her one share to ‘Abdullah
in 1918 (DLS.AT.Zabt 1330–34, p. 120,
nos 72–4 [January 1918]). ‘A’isha herself
married another FBS, Ibrahim al-Mar‘i,
whose father had holding 36 in 1895 with
one share of land which was divided
equally between his three sons after his
death, his two daughters selling their share
of the inheritance to their brothers (DLS.
AT.Zabt 1323–24, p. 135, nos 191–6 [June
1908]). In 1933 Ibrahim shared 14q with
his three sons by ‘A’isha and one son by
another wife. We thank Maisun al-Zu‘bi
for sharing her information on Hawwara
with us: Daur al-nashat al-zira‘i fi iqtisad
al-wihda al-baitiya, Unpublished MA
thesis (1990).
49 Holding no. 87, belonging to Mutlaq
al-‘Ali, has a general plot number in the
273
first field but thereafter only internal field
numbers. But there is a gap in the general
plot numbers in every other field between
the plots of nos 4 and 15, so no. 87 shared
in the allotment of plots in the Shatnawi
half, whereas nos 88–93 were residual.
50 See Table 9.3 for brief accounts of
holdings 88–92.
51 Interview with Budaiwi Mustafa
Mufaddi Ahmad Gharaiba, Abu Hashim,
15 November 1992. He recalled the
bedouin’s name as ‘Arif al-Hamd rather
than ‘Urbaya, perhaps confusing the name
with someone called ‘Arif Dhiyab al-
Muhammad Khuraisha who held 6q in
1933, the source of which is unknown.
The person from the Rawashida he named
as I‘mur al-Tuti, which bears striking
resemblance to the father of Mahmud bin
Ahmad ‘Umar Tuti, holder of one share
in 1895 (no. 48), and donor of his other
half-share to Muhammad bin ‘Umar in
no. 47, both of whom were identified as
Rawashida in the 1933 cadastral register.
52 Half a share represented one plough
team or faddan and was the natural unit
for conceptualizing the size of holdings
rather than the rub‘a or full share.
53 For instance, for a half-share
holding the area of a plot in the first field
(kisarat Musa), valued at 50 guruş per
dönüm, was 1 dönüm, for a one-share
holding the area was 2, and for a twoshare
holding the area was 4. Similarly for
other fields. The total area of a one-share
holding of 31 plots was 421 dönüm. A
one-share holding, valued at 40,775 guruş,
paid vergi tax of 0.4 per cent of this or
163.1 guruş. 48 times this = 7,828.8 guruş,
which is the total tax on land given at the
end of the register.
54 Interview with Khalid Falih Khalaf
‘Abdul-Ghani Shahada, Abu Yasin, on 21
June 1992.
55 DLS.AT.Zabt 1323–24, p. 5, nos
3–5; p. 20, nos 31–3; pp. 24–5, nos 83–91;
p. 110, nos 20–25; and p. 135, nos 191–9.
56 Salih al-Bakr (no. 81) was sold
12q by Falha Ahmad Qallab in 1893,
Notes to chapter 9