From the Pages of the Defter (ص 216)

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From the Pages of the Defter (ص 216)

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If we adopt the view that the Empire’s primary concern was to generate income in
the form of registration fees and tax revenue, then its foremost concern would have been to
have a name or a group attached to every property in use. This is not to suggest that the
tapu and tax surveys were careless or that it did not reflect reality. On the contrary and in
contrasdistinction to a commonly held view, the property-tenure reform laws make it clear
that the Ottomans tried to foresee every possibility of ownership, inheritance, mortgage,
debt, temporary abandonment, illness, travel, flooding, inability to pay fees and more, and
to create procedures and regulations that allowed ordered supervision and strove for
accuracy and fairness Concerns of correlation between registers may have arisen only when
conflict arose. While this scenario might be seen as having created a semi-fiction on paper —
at least to the eyes of the outsider — this court case suggests that the non-fictional
arrangements of land tenure continued to be both definable and honored.
Idhna: strategies to safeguard landholdings—division and endowment
Khalil b. Muhammad Salame (‘Awad)3”° versus Jibran b. ‘Atiyya al-Zayr
The village of Idhna is located just south of the southern border of Jamrura, northwest of
Hebron. Until today, the town is composed of two main family groupings, the Tumeizt and
°7° Khalil’s surname was determined by consulting family trees in Majmu‘a min al-bahithin (A group of
researchers), ed., /dhna garyatun Iaha tarikh (Idhna is a village with history), Kai La Nansa (So That We
Won't Forget) series, No.2 (Hebron: Markaz al-Bahth al-‘Ilmi (Center for Scientific Research), University
of Hebron, 1995, second printing); see p. 49.
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