From the Pages of the Defter (ص 160)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 160)

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is, of course, “all of the lands”. Even in the villages of Hebron in which the entirety of
agricultural lands was registered as undivided communal property in the tax register of 1876,
the villages’ houses were registered separately. This was accepted as complying with the letter
of the law, as the fact of its registration clearly demonstrates. Image 3.1 on the following page
maps the villages which have been documented as having held agricultural properties in musha.
As the map illustrates, reference has been found to eight villages with agricultural
properties held communally as musha. As it shows, not all musha found to exist in Hebron in
the last quarter of the nineteenth century was declared as such in the Esas-: Emlak register. In
1876, only four villages in the Hebron district registered some of their properties as musha. Two
of these were among the most populous villages in the district, Dura and Yatta, with 320 and
176 residences, respectively. Samu’, located not far from Dura and Yatta in the southern part of
the district, had 64 residences. Shuyukh, in the eastern part of the district, was relatively
smaller. To understand the function of musha for these villages, we will consider each in turn.
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Susynne McElrone

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