Summary
The judge of Nablus who served longer in that position than any other judge in the city during the nineteenth century, formed an early alliance with the Abd al-Hadi family, approved all their waqf-exchange bids, and accumulated enough capital to build a new soap factory from scratch in the mid-1840s (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 4101-4215).
Details
- He organized a petition against Ahmad Agha Nimr’s pro-Ottoman sympathies, which led to Nimr’s deportation, and was annually reconfirmed as judge during the entire Egyptian period (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 4101-4215).
- His factory, the masbanant al-qadi (judge’s soap factory), as printed, constructed sometime in the mid-1840s, was still operational at the time of writing, albeit on a much-reduced scale (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 4101-4215).
- After his removal from office in 1865, Abd al-Fattah Nimr won invalidation of the forced 1838 exchange of half the Yusufiyya soap factory by proving the factory had been operational and profitable at the time of exchange (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 4101-4215).
- Chapter 5’s remainder dates his own factory’s building to sometime between 1839 and 1842 and assesses him in Table 9 (1842-1843) for 5.5 tabkhas at 4,598 piasters; its notes fix his total service as judge at 28 years between 1830 and 1864, his death in 1876, and his September 1848 endowment of the judge’s factory, in the Yasmina quarter adjacent to the family residence, as a private family waqf (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 4216-4340, lines 4766-5058).
Related pages
Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, Abd al-Hadi family, Nimr family, Nablus