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physical indication of this is menzdls, or guesthouses. As shown in this study, eighteen of the
Hebron villages registered a structure for hosting guests in the village in 1876. Another
indication is out-of-district land ownership. As Appendix IV illustrates, the majority of
property owners registered in Hebron’s Esas-: Emlak whose residence was outside the
district, lived not in one of Palestine’s cities but, rather, in another of its villages.
Secondly, as this dissertation has shown, Hebron’s villagers were not, as the
conventional narrative would have them, unaware of the society in which they lived and of
which they were a part, nay, the majority. Whether bargaining for a lower tax rate based on
historical and religious privilege, as did the Shuyukh villagers; registering land ownership in
the names of a representative few, as was seen in Nahalin and Idhna; converting village
agricultural properties into waqf, as did the Shuyukhis with their musha and as did the Idhna
villagers, apparently, with their vineyards; registering village lands en bloc as most villages
did with at least part of their lands or trees; or registering all properties to individuals, as did
Bani Na‘im, Sa‘ir, Nahalin, Wadi Fukin, ‘Artuf, and Ja‘ba — Hebron villagers strategized to
comply with reform but to comply in such a way that reform worked in their interest and not
against it.
This study has begun to unravel the historiographical web of information upon which
the narrative of land tenure in post-1858 Ottoman Palestine has been built. Doing so, it has
revealed the debility of its evidence. Not only has this study shown that property-tenure
reforms were carried out thoroughly in at least one part of Palestine, its evidence has put
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Susynne McElrone

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