Property, social structure, and law in the modern Middle East / edited by Ann Elizabeth Mayer.

Papers originally presented at a conference held at the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy, Nov. 1980, and sponsored by the Subcommittee on Law and Social Structure of the Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East ofthe American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.

Part 1: Property as an idiom of social relationships -- One: Substance and relation: water rights and water distribution in the Dr?a Valley / Abdellah Hammoudi -- Part 2: Property as a means of centralizing power -- Two: Public property and control of property rights: their effects on social structure on Morocco / Rémy Leveau -- Three: Water-sharing rights in the Jerid Oases of Tunisia / Habib Attia -- Part 3: Property as a means to personal power and mobility -- Four: Real property, and social structure in the premodern Middle East: a case study/ Abraham Marcus -- Five: Aspects of inheritance and marriage payment in North Yemen / Tomas Gerhom -- Six: International migration in the Middle East: effectson property and social structure / Robert J. Lapham, Allan G. Hill, and CharlesF. Lintner -- Part 4: Controlling property through law -- Seven: Real estate rights in urban Egypt: the changing sociopolitical winds / Milad M. Hanna -- Eight: Social structure and urban planning in Lebanon / Samir Khalaf -- Nine: