Landownership in the Ottoman Empire

For a long time, in the ottoman empire, just as in many other places, the peasants didn't even have the option of owning any land. All land is held at the pleasure of the sultan, and he can distribute and take away ownership whenever he wants. When some arab or turkish notable becomes favored and received rights over a piece of land from the ottom state, that guy's knock in to try his hand at farming. No, there are already people living on that land. They've been living there for generations. And so instead of taking any direct interest in the land, they would just keep the ancestral farmers on as tenants who would pay a rent