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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 108)

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This is almost certainly reference to the Nabi Lut complex and the graveyard near it. This is
puzzling, because the mosque enclosing the shrine also predates the Ottoman period.””°
Of course, the emlak register was intimately tied with the imposition of vergi; the amount of
this property tax was determined by the property-value assessments recorded by the emlak
commissions. However, as first outlined in the 1860 Tahrir-1 Emlak ve Nufus registration law
which was discussed in Chapter One, the Ottomans were also interested in creating a record
of tax-exempt properties. In rural Hebron, as the register indicates, this comprehensive
scope of property registration which had been envisioned in 1860 was largely realized.’””
In large villages in the southern part of the district, Yatta and Samu‘, caves were
registered and taxed: eight in Yatta and three in Samu ‘. Other villages in the foothills also
took advantage of caves in the rocky landscape for residences and storage purposes (see, for
example, Images 2.1 and 2.2, below), but it appears these villages chose not to register them
in 1876. The matter of choice in registration will be discussed in Chapter Three.
“”® vuthor’s visits to these sites; Najah Abu Sara, al-Zawaya w’al-maqamat fi Khalil al-Rahman: Dirasa
Ta’rikhiyya Khadariyya (Zawiyas and Maqams in Hebron: A Historical and Cultural Study), part 2
(Hebron: Markaz al-Bahth al-Ilmi (Center of Scientific Study), 1987), 10-17, 49-57; Khalid ‘Abd al-Karim
al-Manasra, Bani Na ‘im: Sh‘ulat al-Jundb (Bani Na ‘im: Torch of the South) (Hebron, 1999), 39-41.
7 See Chapter II, Article 10 of the 1860 law in Ongley, 118.
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