From the Pages of the Defter (ص 170)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 170)

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register indicates that this was not the case, it suggests that the village did continue to receive
special consideration.”
Its 1,000 dunams of musha field-crop lands were assessed at 100 kurus per dunam, fifty
kurus per dunam below the district average. It is difficult to assess the relative value of this
property for the villagers. The greatest proportion of their wealth, according to al-Shuyukhi, has
been the olive trees, which villagers registered individually in 1876. Why did villagers decide to
endow their communal farmlands, apparently coinciding with the period of the emlak
commission’s tour of the district? Land conflict may be a factor.
Limited land resources and Shuyukh’s unique location as a geographical island in the sea
of another village's agricultural land would appear to be the main reasons why seventeen
*86 Three of these Shuyukhis owned only
Shuyukhis owned land registered as belonging to Sa ‘ir.
small plots in the surrounding village, the largest being eleven dunams. The other fourteen
individuals all owned properties in Shuyukh in addition to their Sa‘ir acquisitions. The
Shuyukhis’ Sa‘ir lands, overwhelmingly field-crop lands, totaled 624.75 dunams. Five of these
plots were substantial in size, each larger than fifty dunams.*°”
285 Al-Shuyukhi, 31. The author saw only a translation into Arabic of the Ottoman Turkish document
preserved in the hands of ‘Adnan Mahmud Ahmad ‘Abd al-Rahman, and reproduced it in full in his book (p.
33).
86 These are registered on Sa’‘ir village’s pages in the Esas-1i Emlak, entires #13301, 13346, 13419, and 13640
- 13656.
287 They measured, respectively, 90 dunams, 80 dunams, 75 dunams, and two plots of 60 dunams each. Esas-!
Emlak entries #13644, 13645, 13646, 13648, and 13650.
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