From the Pages of the Defter (ص 36)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 36)

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register of every owned property, from small rooms and quarter-dunam vegetable gardens
to parcels of land that were hundreds of dunams in size—| make an argument that by all
measurable indicators the registration was remarkably thorough.
The Historical Creation of a Historiographical Paradigm: the Middle Years
Scholarship of the 1980s and 1990s did not offer a serious challenge to the paradigm which
by virtue of repetition had become firmly established as common knowledge in the field.
Gershon Shafir, in his seminal study of the late-1980s, Land, Labor and the Origins of the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, points to this issue, if unwittingly so:
The peasants, as has been pointed out by all historians who studied this
topic, by trying to use the ayan as a foil...indirectly contributed to their
influence. Being fearful that land registration was the harbinger of new
taxes, or military conscription, the peasants frequently preferred, or even
sought, the protection of an urban notable, under whose name they
consented to have their land registered.*°
Beshara Doumani’s groundbreaking 1995 study of the political economy of Ottoman
Jabal Nablus in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remains influential today for a
number of reasons, among them the researcher’s successful effort to bring Palestinians to
center stage in historical studies of Ottoman Palestine. Doumani discusses in some detail
38 Emphasis added. Gershon Shafir, Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 1882-
1914 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 34.
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