A village shaykh captured and delivered a fugitive peasant to conscription.

Evidence

See the case of the fellah from Ṭahṭā in Upper Egypt who dared to fire at the conscription gang which was visiting his village. He managed to escape but was later found by the shaykh of his village who delivered him to the military authorities for conscription; S/1/48/1/139 on 15 Ca 1239/17 January 1824. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 595

Categorization

• XREF: A concrete instance of how local elites were co-opted into the conscription machinery, relevant to the army’s social foundations.