Search Results for Ottoman land tenure

... camps informality property relations legal pluralism Ottoman land tenure One day, during an interview with a Palestinian family living in a contested Palestinian refugee camp in Amman, I learned about the use of hujja contracts for installing new electric meter boxes. In order to connect...

...Nilay Özok-Gündoğan Özok-Gündoğan’s article examines the Ottoman state’s policy toward the hereditary yurtluk-ocaklik lands under the control of the Kurdish emirs in the mid-nineteenth century. Within the Tanzimat context, the Ottoman state set out to abolish this particular landownership pattern...

... politics of just Turkish-­speaking populations of the empire. road construction, and urban policing and social Ottoman studies is now being reconceptualized control to power politics of land tenure and village to include the entirety of the empire in all its re- protest. These articles represent...

... reproduced the classical Ottoman fiscal conception of land revenue as a form of rent and of peasant land tenure as a form of usufruct rather than property right. The significant change envisioned was to end the intermediary class of tax farmers and the constitution of the cultivator-possessor as a direct...

...–32 ofapproximately million territory its byapopulation inhabited tory ofterri- kilometers square ofover 3million consisted Empire 1800 In Ottoman context? the this in empire land-based Ottoman an and seaborne aBritish between distinction the is ingful How mean- Raj...

... founder had envisioned. Indeed, more at the newly founded Ottoman language academy. On than merely creating native physicians along Euro- his return, Mohammad Hussein13 was then ordered to pean lines, the Dar al-Fonun became a center for the help a Monsieur Jibril compose a Persian treatise...

... into the Islamic sphere. The characteristically modern modes of power that Michel Foucault identified as governmentality and the particular kinds of knowledge and subjectivities associated with them were profoundly rearticulating the nature of Sufism in Ottoman lands by the last quarter of the nineteenth century...

... de Hungaria, who lived in Ottoman perialism, which was strengthened by capital- lands for a long time and also saw “Mechemet- ism, and its local collaborators. I also make a beg, who is ruling now,” probably in Bursa, as suggestion as to why...

...Mona L. Russell Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1900 Dror Ze'evi Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006 xv + 171 pp., $60.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Producing Desire...

... and control sexuality” (65). The Sharia Changing Sexual Discourse contained a certain amount of rigidity and dif- in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1900 ficulty of indictment; meanwhile, throughqanun Dror Ze’evi the state could set...

...Julia Stephens Abstract This Kitabkhana contribution situates Beshara Doumani's Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean: A Social History within recent trends in the field of legal history. Doumani's hybrid method, which combines quantitative analysis with qualitative case studies, presents...

... : Afghanistan Council of the Asia Society , 1979 . Edwards Holly . “ Exiles, Diplomats, and Darlings: Afghans Abroad in the Early Twentieth Century .” In Archaeologists and Travelers in Ottoman Lands . Exhibition at Penn Museum, Philadelphia, September 26 , 2010 – June 26 , 2011...

...: Nader Shah from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant . London : I. B. Tauris , 2006 . Ayalon Yaron . Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Bamdad Mahdi . Sharh-i hal-i rijal-i Iran dar...

... and more often discussed cases of Egypt and of “recovery” on the other make for radi- and the Syrian lands, bilad al-­Sham. We might cally different conceptions of the Ottoman past? schematically consider such narratives as fall- How, in these different moments, did...

... to the commutation, the 5,000 l . a year is to be paid to the Porte, and not to the Sultan as proposed by Lord Salisbury. 83 As Alexis Rappas has shown, after the British invasion of Cyprus in 1878, British colonial officers began translating Ottoman land laws and scrutinizing land tenure practices...

... in the extrafamilial economic bonds. The decline in 1880s. While the effects of Ottoman Tanzimat bequeathals signals that the qassam and family land reform in the Arab provinces have been...

... and are in definition/reorientation and to a geocultural turn shaped by them. It should not be at all sur- unification of post-Ottoman Anatolia. Though 4. Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: 7. On Australia, see Freek Colombijn, “Canberra: A of Kazakhstan,” Economist, 6 June 1998, 40; Henry R...

... Sabri . The Ottoman-Iranian Borderlands: Making a Boundary, 1843–1914 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 . Baruah Sanjib . “ Whose River Is It Anyway? Political Economy of Hydropower in the Eastern Himalayas .” Economic and Political Weekly 47 , no. 29 ( 2012 ): 41...

... their gistics; the Ottoman state shared a land bor- 5. Bas¸bakanlık Osmanlı Ars¸ivi (Prime Ministry issuance were much more evocative of a mod- der with Russia that was nearly impossible to Ottoman Archives), Istanbul (hereafter BOA...

...- Egyptian refers to English officials  5.  The 1840 Treaty of London had vested the rule  8. The matter is yet further complicated by the nom- who had made Egypt their home and not to a com- of Egypt in Muhammad Ali (its de facto ruler at the  inal Ottoman suzerainty over Egypt and hence...