Agricultural ownership of senior employees in Egypt  in the second half of the nineteenth century

Ramadan Ahmed Amin, Hassnaa; Ebrahim Elattar, Salwa; Elsaid Sleema, Aida

doi:10.21608/buhuth.2023.225674.1537

Agricultural ownership of senior employees in Egypt in the second half of the nineteenth century

Document Type : Academic research papers

Authors

¹ Faculty of Women for Art, Science and Education, Ain Shams University _ Egypt

² Professor of history -Faculty of Women for Arts, Science & Education-Ain Shams University – Egypt

10.21608/buhuth.2023.225674.1537

Abstract

Large agricultural ownership is that type of ownership on which a class of owners of vast agricultural lands in Egypt was based. They enjoy an excellent social and political position. This in turn led to the formation of a class of large agricultural owners who owned more than 50 acres of agricultural lands in Egypt, of different social classes. They include the senior employees who monopolized the major jobs in the army and administration, the subject matter of our research. Senior employees possessed such lands in different ways of grants, donations and gifts. There was another source of the senior employee properties formation represented in the land that was given to them upon their retirement. Such ways will be explained in this study in which we depended on a number of important sources in the National Documentation House, represented in: “Al-Ma'iya Al-Sunnia, Arabic, Al Gharbiya Directorate”, in addition to some published documents such as: Real estate laws in Egypt and the Nile Calendar. Through such documents, we will discuss agricultural ownership of senior employees during the above mentioned period.

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