Beit Fajjar
Beit Fajjar ( ar, بيت فجّار) is a Palestinian town located eight kilometers south of Bethlehem in the Bethlehem Governorate, in the central West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of over 13,403 in 2017. Ottoman era According to the people of Beit Fajjar, they came from Bethlehem, and settled at Beit Fajjar in 1784. Edward Robinson noted the village on his travels in the area in 1838, as a Muslim village in the Hebron district. According to Kark and Oren-Nordheim, Beit Fajjar was mostly farmland until the 19th century, when it gradually transformed into an urban settlement. The residents were descendants to a semi-nomadic family from the Hauran. The lands formerly belonged to the village of ''Buraikut''. Victor Guérin visited the village in 1863, and described it as a village on the top of a hill, with about 400 people. The villagers still buried their dead in rock-cut tombs, below the village. An Ottoman village l ...
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Arabic Script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used writing system in the world by number of countries using it or a script directly derived from it, and the third-most by number of users (after the Latin and Chinese scripts). The script was first used to write texts in Arabic, most notably the Quran, the holy book of Islam. With the religion's spread, it came to be used as the primary script for many language families, leading to the addition of new letters and other symbols. Such languages still using it are: Persian (Farsi/Dari), Malay ( Jawi), Uyghur, Kurdish, Punjabi (Shahmukhi), Sindhi, Balti, Balochi, Pashto, Lurish, Urdu, Kashmiri, Rohingya, Somali and Mandinka, Mooré among others. Until the 16th century, it was also used for some Spanish texts, and—prior to the language reform in 1928—it was the writing system of Turkish. The script is written from right to left in a cu ...
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Umar Ibn Al-Khattab
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ( ar, عمر بن الخطاب, also spelled Omar, ) was the second Rashidun caliph, ruling from August 634 until his assassination in 644. He succeeded Abu Bakr () as the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate on 23 August 634. Umar was a senior companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was also an expert Muslim jurist known for his pious and just nature, which earned him the epithet ''al-Fārūq'' ("the one who distinguishes (between right and wrong)"). Umar initially opposed Muhammad, his distant Qurayshite kinsman and later son-in-law. Following his conversion to Islam in 616, he became the first Muslim to openly pray at the Kaaba. Umar participated in almost all battles and expeditions under Muhammad, who bestowed the title ''al-Fārūq'' ('the Distinguisher') upon Umar, for his judgements. After Muhammad's death in June 632, Umar pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr () as the first caliph and served as the closest adviser t ...
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Marah Rabah
Marah Rabah is a Palestinian village located twelve kilometers south of Bethlehem. The village is in the Bethlehem Governorate central West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of over 1,320 in 2007. Jordanian era In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Marah Rabah came under Jordanian rule. In 1961, the population of ''Murah Rabah'' was 198.Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p23/ref> Post 1967 Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Marah Rabah has been held under Israeli occupation. Footnotes Bibliography * * External linksMarah Rabah village (fact sheet) Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem (ARIJ; ar, معهد الابحاث التطبيقية - القدس) is a Palestinian NGO founded in 1990 with its main office in Bethlehem in the West Bank. ARIJ is actively working on research project ..., ARIJMarah Rabah villag ...
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Marah Ma'alla
Marah may refer to: * Marah (plant) or manroot, a kind of wild cucumber * Marah (band), an American rock band * Marah (Bible), one of the locations which the Torah identifies as having been travelled through by the Israelites during the Exodus * Micha Marah, Belgian popular singer * Marah, a variant of the Irish name O'Meara See also *Mara (other) * Marrah (other) *Mahra (other) Mahra may refer to: Middle East * Al Mahrah Governorate, a governorate in Yemen * Mahra Sultanate, a historical sultanate in South Arabia * Mehri people, an ethnic group of Oman and Yemen * Mehri language, the Modern South Arabian language spoken b ...