Al-Mushrifah ( ar, المشرفة, also spelled ''al-Mishirfeh'', ''el-Mishrife'' or ''Musharrfeh'') is a village in central
Syria, administratively part of the
Homs Governorate
Homs Governorate ( ar, مُحافظة حمص / ALA-LC: ''Muḥāfaẓat Ḥimṣ'') is one of the fourteen governorates (provinces) of Syria. It is situated in central Syria. Its area differs in various sources, from to . It is thus geographic ...
, located northeast of
Homs, with a population of 14,868 in 2004. Nearby localities include
Ayn al-Niser
Ayn al-Niser ( ar, عين النسر, also spelled Ain al-Nisr or Ayni-Nasir) is a town in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located northeast of Homs. Nearby localities include al-Mishirfeh to the west, Ayn al-Danan ...
,
Umm al-Amad and
al-Mukharram
Al-Mukharram ( ar, المخرم), also known as Mukharram al-Fawqani ( ar, المخرم الفوقاني; also spelled Makhem Fuqani or ''Mkhurem Fouqani'') is a small city in central Syria, capital of the al-Mukharram District, administrativel ...
to the east, and
Talbiseh
Talbiseh ( ar, تلبيسة, also spelled Talbisa, Tell Bisa, Talbeesa) is a large town in northwestern Syria administratively part of the Homs Governorate, about 10 kilometers north of Homs. Nearby localities include al-Rastan to the north, al-G ...
,
al-Ghantu
Al-Ghantoo ( ar, الغنطو) or al-Ghantu, ALA-LC: ''al-Ghānṭū'': but the original name is spelled: الغُنْثُر/ Al-Ghonthor, which means the land of fountains) is a town in the west of Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governo ...
and
Teir Maalah to the west. Outside the modern town is Tell el-Mishrife, the site of the ancient city-state of
Qatna
Qatna (modern: ar, تل المشرفة, Tell al-Mishrifeh) (also Tell Misrife or Tell Mishrifeh) was an ancient city located in Homs Governorate, Syria. Its remains constitute a tell situated about northeast of Homs near the village of al ...
. It has a religiously mixed population of
Sunni Muslims,
Alawites
The Alawis, Alawites ( ar, علوية ''Alawīyah''), or pejoratively Nusayris ( ar, نصيرية ''Nuṣayrīyah'') are an ethnoreligious group that lives primarily in Levant and follows Alawism, a sect of Islam that originated from Shia Isl ...
and
Christians
Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words '' Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρ ...
. The village contains several mosques and two churches.
In the 1950s, under the influence of the
Syrian Communist Party, some of the peasants of al-Mushrifah rose against their landlord by seizing his harvest.
[Batatu, 1999, p. 121.]
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Alawite communities in Syria
Christian communities in Syria
Populated places in Homs District
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