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Burin, Nablus
Burin ( ar, بورين) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, located southwest of Nablus. The town had a population of around 2,800 in 2008. History The name itself may conserve the toponym of ''Beera'' mentioned in the Book of Judges 9:21. In the 12th and 13th centuries, during the Crusader era, Burin was inhabited by Muslims, according to the historian Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi.Ellenblum, 2003, pp244 In 1176, a part of the tithes from the village was pledged to the Church of Mount Zion, but there is no evidence that it was ever collected. The founder of the Banu Ghawanima family, Shaykh Ghanim, was born in the village in 1166 and entered Jerusalem with the army of Saladin in 1187.Auld, Hillenbrand and Natsheh 2000, pp. 66, 146. He was appointed as the sheikh of the city's al-Khanqah al-Salahiyya Mosque founded by Saladin in 1187 and he and his descendants served as the head judges of the Shafi'i ''fiqh'' (Isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaykh Ghanim
The Nussaiba Clan, commonly spelt in English as Nuseibeh ( ar, عائلة نسيبة; also spelt ''Nusaibah'' and ''Nusseibeh'') is the oldest Muslim dynasty in Jerusalem. The Nussaiba family has a long history and tight bonds with the Holy Land, and the Christian people of the levant, since the days their first forefathers conquered Jerusalem in the 7th century. According to tradition, the Nusseibeh family took its name from a female companion or Sahabiyah of the Islamic prophet Muhammad named Nusaybah bint Ka'ab. She was a member of the Ansar who transferred their political power over Medina to Muhammad. Nusaybah fought along with Muhammad in battle and was an early example of women taking leadership roles in Islam. Since the arrival of Islam in Jerusalem in the seventh century, the Sunni Muslim family has held the keys of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Christianity's holiest site, alongside the Joudeh family (who were added to the original arrangement in the time of Salad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Hasan Al-Burini
Badr al-Din al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Dimashqi al-Saffuri al-Burini (July 1556-11 June 1615), commonly known as al-Hasan al-Burini, was a Damascus-based Ottoman Arab historian and poet and Shafi'i jurist. Life Al-Burini was born in mid-July 1556 in the village of Saffuriya near Nazareth in the Galilee, hence his ''nisba'' (epithet) "al-Saffuri". His father Muhammad was originally from the village of Burin near Nablus hence the ''nisba'' "al-Burini". At the age of 10 he moved to Damascus with his father. Al-Burini learned the Qur'an at the Manjak Mosque in the Midan neighborhood in his adolescence. Afterward, he received an education in Arabic grammar, '' qanun'' (secular law) and arithmetic from Damascene ''ulema'' (religious scholars) at the Madrasa al-Umariyya in the Salihiyya neighborhood. His studies there were interrupted by a famine, which prompted him to relocate to Jerusalem from 1567 to 1571. In Jerusalem he was taught by Muhammad ibn Abi al-Lutf. He moved back to Damasc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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