Clayton Goodgame is a postdoctoral fellow in anthropology at the London School of Economics, where he examines property relations, kinship, and religious politics in the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. He would like to thank Beshara Doumani and Paul Kohlbry for inviting him to the workshop from which this article emerged and for their feedback on an early draft, Rashid Khalidi for his insightful comments as discussant, and JQ editor Alex Winder along with the two anonymous reviewers for their very helpful comments and suggestions.