Governing property, making the modern state - PSI424

Contents
Maps, figures and tables |viii Note on transliteration,
datation and abbreviation | x Acknowledgements | xii
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Two documents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Persons and things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Part one Ottoman jurisprudence concerning ownership of
agricultural land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2 Jurisprudential debate in the sixteenth century . . . . . . . . . 11
Classical Hanafi doctrine on the character of property in land . . . . . 11
Hanafi doctrine under the Mamluks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The readings of Ottoman jurists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3 Jurisprudential debate in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries 21
The powers and properties of the administrator . . . . . . . . . . 23
The legal persona of the sahib al-ard | 23 Tax collection
and land administration: the village and the tax farmer | 25
The powers and properties of the cultivator . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
The nature of the cultivator’s right | 28 The legal person of
the cultivator | 31
Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
4 Legal reform from the 1830s to the First World War . . . . . . . 40
The character of Ottoman reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
1830s–40s: law as programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Regional government |43 Land law | 44
1850s–60s: law as blueprint for institution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
A Damascene excursus | 48 Administrative consolidation | 50
After the 1870s: law as political administration of private property . . . 51
Part two The administration of property in one district of
the empire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
5 Production and settlement in the district of `Ajlun . . . . . . . . 57
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