Custodians of Descent
The House, the Church, and the Family Waqf in the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22172132 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clayton Goodgame (0000-0002-0656-2720, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Issue | 89 |
| Pages | 32 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jerusalem Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2521-9731 • E-ISSN: 2521-974X |
| Publisher | Institute for Palestine Studies (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.70190/jq.i89.p32 |
| OpenAlex | W4408807114 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This article examines a conflict within the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem between the Greek hierarchy and the Palestinian laity over property.Connecting historical scholarship with ethnography from the Old City of Jerusalem, it demonstrates how Orthodox ownership was transformed by the Ottoman definition of Church property as a family waqf.This legal change led Greeks and Palestinians to express their property rights in the idiom of custodianship: the ability to hold and transmit property as descendants of the Church.As a result, ownership in the Orthodox community became less tied to legal title and increasingly aligned with claims of kinship and descent
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Custodians · Geography · Islam · Political science · Theology · Waqf · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |