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Notes to chapter 10
AT.Yoklama, Ağustos 1300AM recopied
1329AM, pp. 76–84 [August 1884] from
which we worked. This is consistent with
references in mutations of 1908 where the
numbers are 93 less than our numbers. It
implies that there were two copies of the
original register of different dates.
19 ACR.SC sijill 12, hasr al-irth,
p. 175, case 80 of 6 October 1931.
20 Sari al-Ahmad’s holding was of
11¼q while the average holding was only
2q (519⅔ ÷ 262). 11¼q was still less than
two zalama.
21 DLS.AT.Yoklama, 1299–1301,
pp. 145–50 (plantings), 150–53 (houses),
155–72 (gardens), 172–9 (plough land)
[November 1884].
22 On a more restricted definition of
landless, three other Christians were landless
in 1884, brothers of someone who held
a quarter-share in the common plough
land, Da’ud bin Sulaiman al-Ya‘qub.
The four brothers shared a house. A fifth
brother, Khalil, had his own separate
half-share holding but was not given in the
house list.
23 A number of people are listed more
than once in the 1895 list not always in the
same way, as if it had been prepared from
separate lists of different taxable items
without an overall index. For instance
the fourth person without plough land,
‘Abdul-Rahim ‘Akil Yusuf in no. 61, has an
olive grove in no. 150 (where the father’s
name is ‘Aqil). He is not counted the same
as ‘Abdul-Rahim ‘Abdul-Rahman ‘Aqil,
a member of the main Tarbush family,
whose holding 117 includes an olive grove,
although in the 1884 list of plots that
person and his brothers are given as ‘sons
of ‘Aqil’ in several plots.
24 For instance Khalil Sulaiman,
mentioned in the last but one note, may
have been living with his brother Da’ud,
although it is odd that he was not listed as
co-sharer in the house along with Da’ud’s
other brothers. By contrast, Sa‘id Yusuf
Mar‘i in 1884 had a quarter-share in a
holding (no. 24) shared with two other
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resident families each of which had a
half-share; but he cannot be linked genealogically
to either family and may not have
been living in the village. In 1895 his holding
of a half-share – he was one of the few
who had a different size musha‘ holding
than in 1884 – included a house. Two other
Christian landholders were similarly not
resident in 1884. Salama Iliyas [Tushman
in 1895] had the fourth quarter-share in
holding 65 in 1884, sharing with Ibrahim
Muslih’s son, son’s son and brother’s son;
in 1895 he had a house but no land while
in 1910 he lived in the household headed
by his son Sa‘id (no. 10). Rizqallah Yusuf
similarly had the fourth quarter-share in
holding 64 in 1884, sharing with the three
sons of Salim al-‘Isa; he was not registered
in 1895 but his two sons (by Salama Iliyas’s
sister) shared a household (no. 7) in 1910,
and a daughter had recently married a son
of Khalil Sulaiman (household no. 11) and
would give birth to a son Tu‘ma in 1911.
Khalil Sulaiman himself was registered
twice in 1910: once as head of his own
household (no. 8) where his age was given
as 100, and again in the household of his
son Sa‘id (no. 1) where his age was given
as 86.
25 DLS.AT.Zabt 1320–22, p. 92,
nos 672–7 [September 1906] relating to the
musha‘ holding of Hasan Mar‘i and his
sons Ahmad and ‘Abdullah, each with ¼.
Ahmad having died in 1899 and Hasan in
1900, ‘Abdullah and a third son Muhammad
inherited ¼ each while ‘Abdullah’s
independent quarter-share remained with
him unchanged. In the other case, there is
no mutation recording the father’s death.
26 See note 24 above concerning Sa‘id
Yusuf Mar‘i.
27 The figure of 61 + 3 plantings is
derived from the earlier figure of 95 by
counting a complete set of co-sharers,
instead of each distinct share, as a holding.
Nineteen plantings were of olive trees,
the rest of vines, figs or other fruit. It
is not clear from the plot classification
alone (olives, bağ and bahçe) what fruit