From the Pages of the Defter (ص 154)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 154)

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consisting of gardens, fig trees, and four plots of field-crop land (tarla) that each measured 125
dunams.
The 31 plots of figs and vegetable gardens were registered in the names of thirteen
individuals. One name among them stands out in the list, ‘Ali b. Mustafa Hussan, who claimed
seven plots of figs and hakuras totaling 10.5 dunams, a fair share of these being mui/k
properties. According to their assessed value, they were worth 10,250 kurus. In sum, the
villagers’ vegetable garden plots totaled eleven dunams, and their fig-tree plots covered 31.5
dunams. When we calculate per-dunam values of these plots, we see they varied widely. Fig
trees were valued from 750 kurus per dunam to as high as 2,375 kurus per dunam. The most
common evaluation was 750 kurus, but six of the twenty-one small plots of fig trees were
valued at 1,000 kurus per dunam or more. Similarly, with gardens we see that six of the ten
plots were valued at 750 kurus per dunam . Two of the other four were assessed at lower
values (one at 166 kurus per dunam, the other at 666 kurus per dunam) while the other two
were assessed higher (at 1,000 and 1,500 kurus per dunam).
While the most common value assessment for field-crop land in the Hebron district was
150 kurus per dunam, Jab‘a’s tarla was assessed at 200 kurus per dunam, fifty kurus higher
than the average. The manner in which Jab‘a’s villagers chose to register their tarla is
illustrative of acommon way that communal land in Hebron villages was registered. The four
shares, each 125 dunams, were registered to four individuals, ‘Ali b. Mustafa Hussan, Hamdan
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Susynne McElrone

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