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{{Short description|Village chief title in Ottoman-era Levant}}{{for|the elected village head in the modern Republic of Turkey|Muhtar (title)}}{{other uses}}A mukhtar also spelled mihtar (; ) is a village chief in the Levant: “an old institution that goes back to the time of the Ottoman rule”.BOOK, Amara, Muhammad, 1999, Politics and Sociolinguistic Reflexes: Palestinian Border Villages, 251, John Benjamins, 90-272-4128-7,books.google.com/books?id=LG5seycNTAcC, According to Amir S. Cheshin, Bill Hutman and Avi Melamed, the mukhtar “for centuries were the central figures”. They “were not restricted to Muslim communities” where even non-Arab “Christian and Jewish communities in the Arab world also had mukhtars.“BOOK, Amir S., Cheshin, Bill, Hutman, Avi, Melamed, Harvard University Press, Separate and Unequal, 73, 2009, 978-0-674-02952-1,books.google.com/books?id=RO0tafb62oEC, Quoting Tore Björgo: “The mukhtar was, among other things, responsible for collecting taxes and ensuring that law and order was prevailing in his village”.BOOK, Conspiracy Rhetoric in Arab Politics: The Palestinian Case, 46, Tore, Björgo, 1987,books.google.com/books?id=n6oLAQAAMAAJ,

See also

• Kodjabashi
• Mayor

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