From the Pages of the Defter (ص 46)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 46)

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Chapter One
The Implementation of Tanzimat-era Property-Tenure
and Property-Tax Reforms in Palestine
When did the series of land-tenure reforms ushered in beginning with the Land Code of April
1858 (7 Ramadan 1274) begin to be implemented in Hebron and the other administrative
districts that comprised Palestine? Not only in textbooks” but also in a number of scholarly
research works, ° academic authors have skirted this question. Most scholarly sources
discussing property-tenure reform in the nineteenth century mention only the promulgation
of the1858 law (and sometimes the 1867 law permitting foreigners to possess property)
before leaping on to a discussion of the causes, goals, and effects of the reform. The process
of reform is an important missing link in this narrative. Before embarking on a discussion of
* E.g., James L. Gelvin, The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (New York: Cambridge
University Press, second edition, 2007, republished 2010): 30-32; Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the
Arab-Israeli Conflict, A History with Documents (Boston: Bedford / St. Martin’s, seventh edition, 2010):
20-22; Gudrun Kramer, A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State
of Israel , trans. Graham Harman and Gudrun Kramer (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press,
2008): 81-87.
“© Eg. Beshara Doumani, Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus 1700-1900
(Berkeley: UC Press, 1995): 159. Doumani uncritically reproduces the traditional narrative within a larger
discussion focusing on the process of the commoditization of land,. The two-pronged focus of this
discuss is, first, evidence of land as private property before 1858 and, secondly, on the phenomenon of
farmers losing their lands due to debts (155-164): Farid al-Salim, “Landed Property and Elite Conflict in
Ottoman Tulkarm, Jerusalem Quarterly 47 (2011), 66
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