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14%OFFRoger Owen (Ed.) - New Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle East - 9780932885265 - V9780932885265
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New Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle East

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Description for New Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle East Paperback. Series: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs. Num Pages: 338 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3H; 3J; HBJF1; HBLC; HBLL; HBLW; KFFR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 460.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Harvard University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
338
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780932885265
SKU
V9780932885265
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About Roger Owen (Ed.)
Roger Owen was A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

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