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- “Narrating the lives of Bedouin individuals involved in Ottoman administration, Nora Elizabeth Barakat brings this population to the center of modern state-making, from their involvement in the pilgrimage administration in the eighteenth century and their performance of land registration and taxation as the Ottoman bureaucracy expanded in the nineteenth, to their eventual rejection of Ottoman attempts to reallocate the ‘empty land’ they inhabited in the twentieth.
humsci.stanford.edu/feature/bedouin-bureaucrats-mobility-and-property-ottoman-empire-nora-elizabeth-barakat-historyBedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire
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Jan 24, 2022 · The first step in unravelling this complex relationship lies in recognising the immense changes in Bedouin lands, lives, and fortunes in the hundred years since the First World War. In 1918, the vast and multi-ethnic Ottoman empire collapsed.
Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how tent-dwelling, seasonally migrating Bedouin engaged in these processes of Ottoman state transformation on local, imperial, and global scales.
Apr 25, 2023 · She places the Syrian interior in a global context of imperial expansion into regions formerly deemed marginal, especially in relation to American and Russian empires. Ultimately, the book illuminates Ottoman state formation attempts within Bedouin communities and the unique trajectory of Bedouin in Syria, who maintained their control over land.”
One of the factors was the influence of the Ottoman empire authorities [50] who started a forced sedentarization of the Bedouin living on its territory. The Ottoman authorities viewed the Bedouin as a threat to the state's control and worked hard on establishing law and order in the Negev. [49]
As the tribe became a category of Ottoman administration, Bedouin in the Syrian interior used this category both to gain political influence and to organize community resistance to maintain control over land.
In the context of this new configuration of power, most bedouin elites stopped collecting protection taxes from settled villages, supporting the Ottoman regime's revenue prerogative, but retained much of their control over land as well as their mobility.
Jun 19, 2012 · We examine the development of land laws in the Middle East as they have affected the Bedouin, from the enactment of the Ottoman land laws of 1858 up to the present. Moreover we explore whether the land laws and the fate of the Bedouin are associated with the characteristics of the regime in each country.
