Editor: Tarif Khalidi
Language: English
Subject: Middle East Studies
Publication Date: 1984
Number of Pages: 531
Book Dimensions: 18.3 x 24.5 cm
Cover Type: Hard Cover
Shipping Weight: 0.1533 kg
Includes: Maps, Photographs, Tables and Index
Price: $30
This
volume provides the first comprehensive survey of land tenure in the Middle
East over several millennia up to modern times. Its thirty-two papers bring to
this theme an interdisciplinary approach and enable the reader to follow the
various threads – historical, social, economic, political, legal – related to
the evaluation and development of land tenure systems in the Middle East. Land
tenure is a vital element in social transformation; it is quite literally the
backdrop to history. Where the Middle East is concerned this theme has not
received the concentrated and collective treatment it richly deserves. This
volume is of great importance to all who are interested in the history,
society, economy, and agriculture of the Middle East, and scholars of land
tenure in other regions of the world will find in it ample material for
comparative interpretation.