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New Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle East

English · Paperback / Softback

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Land was the major economic resource in the pre-modern Middle East. Questions of ownership, of access, of management and of control occupied a central role in administration, in law, and in rural practice over many centuries. And changes in land regimes, such as those which took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were bound to have significant repercussions at all levels of society.
Nevertheless, the subject of land and property relations is still not well understood. It has also been hindered by a concentration on Islamic legal categories which often had little connection with property relations on the ground and by the assumption that the Middle East witnessed much the same passage from pre-modern to modern forms of property as is supposed to have taken place in Europe.


About the author

Roger Owen was A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Summary

Land was the major economic resource in the pre-modern Middle East. Questions of ownership, of access, of management and of control occupied a central role in administration, in law, and in rural practice over many centuries. Nevertheless, the subject of land and property relations is still not well understood.

Product details

Authors Martin P. Bunton, Roger Owen
Assisted by Roger Owen (Editor)
Publisher Harvard University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.12.2001
 
EAN 9780932885265
ISBN 978-0-932885-26-5
No. of pages 368
Dimensions 207 mm x 139 mm x 29 mm
Weight 462 g
Illustrations 2 line drawings, 12 tables
Series Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs
Harvard Middle Eastern Monogra
Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs
Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs (HUP)
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries

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