Islamic law on peasant usufruct in Ottoman Syria : 17th to early 19th century /

Drawing on Hanafi fatawa and legal commentaries from Ottoman Syria between the 17th and early 19th centuries, this book examines the legal status of tenants and sharecroppers on arable lands, most of which were state or waqf properties. Challenging existing scholarship which argues that the status o...

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Main Author: Joseph, Sabrina

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : BRILL, 2012.

Series: Studies in Islamic Law and Society 35.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223295.

Subjects:

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General

Tenant farmers > Legal status, laws, etc. > History. > Syria

Leases (Islamic law) > History.

Usufruct > Syria > History.