From the Pages of the Defter (ص 33)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 33)

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The clause went on to lay out procedures designed to prevent this from reoccurring, as well
as declaring that it would impose a punishment of three years imprisonment and hard labor
on offenders.” The registration process being referred to here is the population registration
(the nuftis), not the registration of property (emlak).** This is the best explanation | have
found, which is to say | have found no logical explanation. In Palestine, as we have seen in
the excerpts from A Survey and Ruedy, this claim has not been made regarding the elite or
regarding evasion of the population registration commission. In Palestine, apparently it was
the small landowners who feared their own conscription and any form of taxation.
Chapter One of this dissertation traces the decades-long process of issuance and
implementation of property-tenure reform laws in the Empire and in Palestine. It will be
shown there that when this law was issued in late 1860, the implementation of reforms had
only begun to take place selectively, experimentally, in a few selected cities of the Empire. It
would be another decade before the empire felt ready to dispatch registration commissions
beyond capital cities and into the countryside. Chapters 2 and 3 examine from different
angles local responses to the emlak commissions tasked with recording the district’s
properties explicitly for tax purposes. Chapter 4 is a case study of court cases involving the
generation that followed the generation who lived through the first implementation of
° Frederic Ongley, The Ottoman Land Code, Translated from the Turkish (London, William Clowes and
Sons Ltd., 1892), 116-117.
>" The modeling of early population registers (nufiis) on temettuat (profit) registers will be discussed in
Chapter 1.
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Susynne McElrone

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