The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 95)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 95)

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“establish a form of peasant ownership against the tribal sheikh’s.”*? They
maintain that the Land Code was primarily concerned with the registering of titles
as a way to reassert the government’s control over land and that there was no
interference with the acquisition of large tracts of land as long as taxes were
paid.”
Another point of contention among historians is whether the acquisition of
large estates was a result of the Land Code. Sluglett and Farouk-Sluglett correctly
point out that these preceded the Land Code, although there was a quantitative
increase in these acquisitions after the enactment of the code, and thus what we
have is continuity and not change in this phenomenon.” However, what the code
provided was a qualitative change in the sense that it established a legal basis for
the acquisition of large-landed property. This basis, combined with the increased
demand for cash crops from the regional and European markets, to be discussed
later, accelerated and intensified the scramble among wealthy and influential
families to accumulate more land.
The rise of large-landed estates, excluding those of the European settlers,
took place in a variety of ways. These included grants by the sultan of tax-farming
Warriner, “Land Problems,” 73; Peter Sluglett and Marion Farouk-Sluglett,
“The Application of the 1858 Land Code in Greater Syria: Some Preliminary
Observations,” in Land Tenure and Social Transformation in the Middle East, ed.
Tariff Khalidi (Beirut: The American University of Beirut, 1984), 413.
3Sluglett and Farouk-Sluglett, 413.
*“Ibid., 415.
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