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The Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem (Ottoman Turkish: قُدس شَرِيف مُتَصَرِّفلغى, Kudüs-i Şerif Mutasarrıflığı; Arabic: متصرفية القدس الشريف, Mutaṣarrifiyyat al-quds aš-šarīf, French: Moutassarifat de Jérusalem), also known as the Sanjak of Jerusalem, was an Ottoman district with special administrative status established in 1872.
The administrative district under his authority, the mutasarrifate (mutasarriflık), [clarification needed] was officially called a sanjak (سنجاق) in Turkish or liwa (لواء) in Arabic and Persian. [2] [4] A mutasarrif was subordinate to a wali or governor-general of a province, while being of superior rank to a kaymakam. [2] [5]
After the collapse of the Double Qaim-Maqamate due to the 1860 conflict, the Maronite Catholics and the Druze further developed the idea of an independent Lebanon in the mid-nineteenth century, through the creation of the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate.
The Mutasarrifate era is characterized by the spread of national consciousness, science and culture among the Lebanese, for many reasons, including: the spread of schools in numerous villages, towns and cities, and the opening of two large universities that are still among the oldest and most prestigious universities in the Middle East, namely ...
Most Ottoman registrations of miri (usufruct) titles existing in the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem are based on a presumed or lost grant. [9] (d) Matruka = communal profits-à-prendre land, being land subject to public easements in common, or servitude State land, such as roads, cemeteries and pastures.
Father Ratisbonne in 1865 Bust of Marie Alphonse Ratisbonne at Ratisbonne Monastery, Jerusalem. Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, NDS (1 May 1814, Strasbourg, Alsace, France – 6 May 1884, Ein Karem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire) was a French Jew who converted to Christianity and became a Jesuit priest and missionary.
9 Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem. 10 Monastir Vilayet. 11 Salonica (Thessaloniki) Vilayet. 12 Sivas Vilayet. 13 See also. 14 References. Toggle the table of contents.
Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem → – 1) Google books gives >8,000 hits for "Sanjak of Jerusalem" and only 6 (six) for "Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem"; 2) The work entitled "The Rise of the Sanjak of Jerusalem in the Late Nineteenth Century" (note 4 in the article) writes "Sanjak was the traditional title of a subprovince in the Ottoman Empire.