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THE DECLINE OF LOCAL POWER IN PALESTINE AFTER 1856* The Case of 'Aq � l Ag � BY ALEXANDER SCHÖLCH Erlangen One of the main aspects of the political, social and economic transformation of Palestine in the 19th century was the decline of local power centres, the deprivation of local lords of their power positions and the incorporation of many of them into the new centralized administrative set-up created by the Tanzimat policy. This policy of de-localization of authority reached its height during the decade which followed the Crimean War. The local lords in the provinces in general, and the shaikhs in the Palestinian mountains in particular, were reckoned among the most serious obstacles in the way of centrally conceived and executed reforms. The Hatt-1 Hfimayun of 1856, and the new administrative and socio-political order of the Empire which was to result from it, could only be implemented and enforced by an effective and resolute central government. The necessity of an unbroken admin- istrative and above all military control of the provinces manifested itself to the Porte during the Syrian crisis of 1860. One of the most important aims of Ottoman policy in Syria after 1860 was, therefore,
Die Welt des Islams – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1984
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