From the Pages of the Defter (ص 165)

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made into waaf land by the villagers.’”° If shares in this land had been divided equally among all
the householders, each share would have been small, some twenty-odd dunams.
Chart 3.1:
Landholdings of Shuyukh villagers by dunams, according to the Esas-1 Emlak
<1dunam
7%
1 to 5 dunams
a —
10.25 to 15 5.25 to 10
dunams dunams
15% 20%
How did Shuyukhis subsist? Village historian Hamid Muhammad al-Shuyukhi describes the
village as dependent on agriculture for its livelihood until today. He emphasizes the economic
stratification within the village, noting that historically some village families were landless and
77° Esas-1 Emlak entry #13869.
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