Reclaiming space: Mushaʿ land and indigenous urbanization in Ain Al-Basha
Urban Studies: An International Journal of Research in Urban Studies
Published online on July 19, 2026
Abstract
Urban Studies, Ahead of Print.
Historically, mushaʿ, or communal land, represented a system of collective land ownership and crop rotation that provided social and spatial control over land in Jordan. This system persisted until the British Mandate in the early 20th century, which ...
Historically, mushaʿ, or communal land, represented a system of collective land ownership and crop rotation that provided social and spatial control over land in Jordan. This system persisted until the British Mandate in the early 20th century, which ...