Summary
As’ad al-Tahir, a member of the recently urbanized rural middle class and a close ally and business partner of the Abd al-Hadi family, who became one of Nablus’s largest soap manufacturers after the Egyptian occupation and sat on the Nablus Advisory Council (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 4101-4215, lines 4216-4340).
Details
- He is listed among the leaders of the soap-manufacturer’s guild (jama’at al-masabiniyya) in 1839, classed with Yusuf Zayd Qadri as an Abd al-Hadi ally on his way to becoming one of Nablus’s largest soap manufacturers (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 4101-4215).
- Married to the daughter of Hajj Ibrahim Muhammad Anabtawi, he began a seventeen-year-long piecemeal purchase and renovation of the Rukabiyya soap factory in the fall of 1839 and at the same time purchased part of the Uthmaniyya factory from the Tuqan family (mid-September 1839) (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 4216-4340).
- In Table 9 (1842-1843) he is assessed for 7 tabkhas of soap at 5,852 piasters in taxes, and in 1856 he endowed 80 percent of the Rukabiyya as a private family waqf (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 4101-4215, lines 4766-5058).
- On April 30, 1850 he was one of four soap producers appointed as new members of the Nablus Advisory Council (Chapter 5, note 127) (Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, lines 4766-5058).
Related pages
Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700-1900, Abd al-Hadi family, Yusuf Zayd Qadri, Nablus Advisory Council, Nablus