Summary
Tax farming in the Ottoman system as it appears in Rediscovering Palestine: the farming out of revenue rights, interwoven with Timar holdings in eighteenth-century Jabal Nablus and held as investment by leading families in the nineteenth (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 844-1172, lines 577-620).
Details
- A document dated early April 1726 shows the interweaving of timar with iltizam (NICR, 4:314), cited in Chapter 1’s notes (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 844-1172).
- Yusuf Abd al-Hadi invested heavily in rebuilding villages of Shifa’amr subdistrict as part of his iltizam (tax farm) holdings in the period after the Egyptian occupation (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 577-620).
Related pages
Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, Timar, Abd al-Hadi family, Jabal Nablus