Private Family Papers

All of the private family documents used in this study are photocopies I made of originals that remain in private hands. In the references, each document is identified by the name of the family and by a reference number. Here, only the family name, time span covered, and types of documents are identified.

1. Nimr Family Papers. This is the private collection of Ihsan Nimr. It contains a few hundred documents dating from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. They span a wide range, from personal letters and business contracts to property purchases and timar land grants. They also include some documents collected from other families.
2. Smadi Family Papers. 1637–1881. Most of the documents deal with urban properties, business contracts, or lawsuits.
3. Arafat Family Papers. 1874–1923. Almost all of the documents are business records and correspondence of Hajj Isma‘il Arafat.
4. Burqawi Family Papers. 1807–1893. Most of the documents concern acquisitions of property in and around the village of Dayr al-Ghusun.
5. Tuqan Family Papers. 1689–1866. Most of the documents deal with the purchase of lands and urban properties, especially during the early 1790s.
6. Jardana Family Papers. 1745–1839. The documents deal with purchases of urban properties, lawsuits, and waqf exchanges.
7. Abd al-Hadi Family Papers. 1842–1852 (including the Advisory Council Records). The documents deal with tax collection and soap production in the early 1840s.
8. Khammash Family Papers. 1723–1868. Most of the documents are waqf endowments.
9. Khalaf Family Papers. 1844–1883. All of the documents pertain to the same property, a house.
10. Ya‘ish Family Papers. 1674. A waqf endowment.