Features of Social and Economic Life in Al Jabal Al Akhdar: A Study of the Documents of Al-Sawjarah
Malāmiḥ al-Ḥayāh al-Ijtimāʻīyah wa-al-Iqtiṣādīyah fī al-Jabal al-Akhḍar: Dirāsah fī Wathāʼiq al-Sawjarah
ملامح الحياة الاجتماعية والاقتصادية في الجبل الأخضر: دراسة في وثائق السوجرة
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Documents — and in particular deeds of acknowledgement, sale contracts, fatwas and correspondence — are among the most important sources through which the social and economic history of Oman may be reconstructed and written, for they are a living register documenting the details of daily life, the forms of transaction and the relations among individuals, tribes and groups. The documents of the settlement of al-Sawjarah in Al Jabal Al Akhdar fall within this frame, extending in time from the twelfth century AH / eighteenth century CE to the fourteenth century AH / twentieth century CE, that is, across more than a century and a half. The importance of studying them lies in their contribution to filling the gap in the traditional sources concerning the wilayat of Al Jabal Al Akhdar, for they vary in structure and content: deeds of acknowledgement and disposition such as sale, mortgage, discharge of debt and surety; fatwas and requests for legal opinion concerning marriage, endowment, ownership, permissible resources, debts and alms; and documents of dispute, arbitration and correspondence of a social and political character. Through this variety they offer rich data on an economy founded principally on agriculture.
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