Governing property, making the modern state - PSI424

Index
temettuat, 42, 66
threshing, 23, 190, 211; ground, 26, 46, 191,
209, 222
thumna, 186, 188, 190
Tibna, 57, 64, 85, 90, 93, 197, 224; registration
of, 91, 92
timar, 15, 25, 28, 32, 43
timari, 14, 15, 16, 19, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 32
title, see tapu
treasury ownership of land, 11–3, 15, 16, 17, 24,
25, 29, 38, 43, 45, 49, 90
tribes, use of term, 109, 122, 128, 23, 236; under
British Mandate, 235; see also aşiret
tuğralı, 47, 70
Tuqbul village, 79, 148, 201, 202
Turkish language, use of, 2, 22, 23, 40, 70, 234
al-‘Ubaid, ‘Ali, 156, 161, 162, 163, 164, 168,
169, 217, 219, 220; brothers Mansur and
Muhammad, 212
‘Ubaidat, 93, 94, 95, 97–8
‘Ubaidu’llah ibn ‘Abd al-Ghani, 30–1, 37, 39
ücret-i muaccele (Arabic ujra mu‘ajjala), 16, 18
ujra, 18, 26
ulema, Hanafi, 23, 39, 41, 43; of 16th and 17th
centuries, 21; of 17th and 18th centuries, 40,
41; of Damascus, 22, 28, 39, 41, 48, 49
ulema: Hanbali, 36; Maliki, 36; Shafi‘i, 33, 34,
36
ulema, Turkish, 12, 31, 49
Um Qais village, 64
urban (Arabic ‘urban), 84, 142
‘urf (Turkish örf), 36, 234,
‘urfi (Turkish örfi), 26, 43
‘ushr (Turkish öşr, Arabic plural a‘shar, tax),
11, 23, 24, 25, 31, 75
‘ushr wa-kharaj, 12, 38, 233
el-Üskübi, Mehmed, 21, 31, 37
ustadh al-qariya, 26
‘Uwaida family, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 125
vakıf, see waqf
value and valuation: of houses, 64, 115, 129,
197; of land, 75, 77, 91, 96, 138
vazife (office), 19, 233
vedia (held in trust), 16
vekil, see wakil
vergi resmi tax, 43
vergi tax, 50, 75, 98, 99, 116, 127, 128, 136, 140,
143, 164
Vilayet Law (1864), 45, 50
Vilayet law (1871), 50
village council, 66, 97, 98, 101, 123, 135, 140,
199, 204, 222, 223
village sections, composition of, 108, 123, 125,
127, 136, 145–7, 150, 152–3, 156, 163–7
306
vineyards, as objects of registration, 117, 138,
177, 180
wad‘ al-yad (possession), 12, 28, 28, 74, 137
Wadi al-‘Arab, 64, 67
Wadi al-Yabis, 64; mills in, 209, 231
wakil, 6, 16, 128
wali, 224
waqf (Turkish vakıf, mortmain), 12, 17, 19, 23,
24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 44,
48, 49, 50, 51, 233
watat, 209, 213, 219, 230, 231
watchmen, payment of, 26; see also haris and
natur
wazifa see vazife
wells, as objects of registration, 111–12, 129,
193
wikala (Turkish vekalet, agency), 28
wilaya, 24
wirku, see vergi
Wittgenstein, 4
women: access to property, 8, 29, 30, 45, 196–7,
223; agricultural work of, 167, 183, 187,
188, 190, 195, 201, 209, 210–11, 213, 230;
as holders of land, 75, 93, 94, 166, 167–75,
182–3, 196, 197, 208, 213; as owners of
houses, 93; as owners of olive trees, 93,
177, 182–3, 231; in household, 168, 192,
199, 200, 201, 209, 210, 231; claims to land
title, 167–73, 183; egalitarianism related to,
228; exclusion of, 153, 193, 194, 208; gifting
of land by or to, 194, 213; household role
of, 168, 192, 200; individuation extended
to, 163; registration in the names of, 166;
registration of, 153, 168, 182; see also
daughters
woodland, 46, 98, 165
al-Wustiya, 64, 67, 95, 197, 202
yad (see also wad‘ al-yad), 12, 17
yad amana, 23
Yafat al-Nasira village, 191, 193
Yenişehirli, Abdullah, Sheikh-ul-Islam, 28
yoklama (roll-call): register, 75; registration, 51,
68, 70–3, 77, 136
yoklama scribe, 70, 82, 83, 97, 98, 99, 111
Yubla village, 64, 94, 95; registration of, 83
za‘im al-qariya, 26
zalama, 153, 167, 176, 178, 179, 180, 181, 220;
allotment by, 91–2, 156–63, 179–80
al-Zamil, Muflih Efendi, 79, 85–6, 88
zeamet, 43
Zubdat al-Wustiya village, 68, 79
Zubiya village, 91
zulm, 17, 35, 36, 37