Governing property, making the modern state : law administration and production in Ottoman Syria /: law administration and production in Ottoman Syria. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Martha Mundy & Richard Saumarez Smith.
• Other Names: Mundy, Martha; Smith, Richard Saumarez
• Contents: Part one. Ottoman jurisprudence concerning ownership of agricultural land -- Jurisprudential debate in the sixteenth century -- Jurisprudential debate in the seventeeth and eighteenth centuries -- Legal reform from the 1830s to the First World War -- Part two. The administration of property in one district of the empire -- Production and settlement in the district of 'Ajlun -- The introduction of bureaucratic registration -- Regional lieadership and the prosecution of a governor -- Property and administration in the later Tanzimat -- Part three. Governing property : administration, village, household -- Registration and political economy in two plains villages -- Registration and political economy in two hill villages -- A village of the plains : Hawwara -- A village of mixed agriculture in the hills : Kufr 'Awan.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages), genealogical tables, maps
• Subjects: 306.095691; Islamic modernism -- Syria; Law and anthropology; Land tenure (Islamic law) -- Syria; Property (Islamic law); SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Civilization; Islamic modernism; Land tenure (Islamic law); Law and anthropology; Politics and government; Property (Islamic law); Social conditions; Recht; Verwaltung; Syria -- Civilization; Syria -- Social conditions; Syria -- Politics and government; Syria; Syrien; Osmanisches Reich; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781435603547; 1435603540; 1845112911; 9781845112912; 9780857713025; 0857713027
• Related ISBNs: 9781845112912
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.