From the Pages of the Defter (ص 183)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 183)

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This chapter explores effects of the implementation of Land Code reforms in Palestine. It seeks
to gauge, in the post-Tanzimat years, the degree of internalization by the rural population of
the new vocabulary of property tenure and new methods of claiming and proving this tenure. It
likewise seeks to evaluate economic effects of these reforms on rural agriculturalists. The
methodology chosen is case-study.
Groups of villagers from Taffuh, Idhna, and Bayt Kahil each separately brought to
Hebron’s sharia court in 1894-1895 apparently unrelated disputes regarding their tenure of
farmlands in an area called Jamrura. The geographical and chronological concurrence of these
disputes makes them suitable for comparative study. The timing of their occurrence, two
decades after the systematic Esas-1 Emlak tax-assessment survey in Hebron and likely about
twenty-five years from the beginnings of systematic implementation of the Land Code in the
district, offers an opportune window through which to view the progress of the adoption and
functioning of reform measures. Further, each of the three cases to be discussed below deals
with different, yet typical problems encountered during what | consider to be a phase of
internalization of and adjustment to the new procedures and norms introduced by the Land
wiki/File:survey_of_Western_ Palestine_ 1880.21.jpg , date of access 22 November, 2015). The image is in
the public domain under CC-PD-Mark and Public domain Ordnance Survey images and under US Copyright
tags PD-1923, PD-1996, and PD-US-no notice . Image is also available through Israeli National library open-
source online access at http://jnul.huji.ac.il/dl/maps/pal/html/eng/pal002368494.htm , accessed 22
November 2015. Jamrura’s borders are approximate, based on Taffouh municipality maps
(http://taffouh.org/ar/jammrora/maps/autocad, accessed 13 May 2015), the municipality’s research on the
farmlands area _http://taffouh.org/ar/taffouh/jammrora , accessed 13 May 2015), nineteenth-century
Hebron court cases to be discussed below, and Abu Sitta sheets # 456, 457, 473, 474.
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Susynne McElrone

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