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Jamma'in
Jamma'in ( ar, جمّاعين) is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank located southwest of Nablus, northwest of Salfit and north of Ramallah. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 6,227 in 2007. Their leader, and the ''khatib'' (Muslim preacher) of the village, Ahmad ibn Qudama (father of Ibn Qudamah and grandfather of Diya al-Din), left Jamma'in due to fears of persecution by King Baldwin, who intended to punish Ibn Qudamah for preaching against Crusader rule. The hilly and uninhabited area of Damascus the Banu Qudamah settled became the al-Salihiyah suburb, which was named either after the family, who were known as "the pious ones" (''as-salihiyyin'') or after the Abi Salih Mosque, which the family was associated with. Throughout the 11th and 12th centuries, Jamma'in was a center for Hanbali activity. The medieval Syrian geographer Yaqut (1179–1229) described the site as "A well in the hill of Nabulus, in the Filas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeita Jamma'in
Zeita Jamma'in ( ar, جمّاعين) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 16 kilometers southwest of Nablus. The village is located just north of Jamma'in, from which the village receives its name. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Zeita Jamma'in had a population of 1,962 inhabitants in mid-year 2006. Location Zeita Jamma’in is a located 11.6 km southwest of Nablus. It is bordered by Jamma’in and ‘Asira al Qibliya to the east, Tell to the north, Deir Istiya to the west, Kifl Haris, Qira and Jamma’in to the south. History Potsherds, possibly from the Middle Bronze Age era was found, together with sherds from Iron Age I, and IA II, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman,Finkelstein et al, 1997, p. 496 Byzantine, Umayyad, Abbasid, Crusader/Ayyubid and Mamluk eras were found here. Ottoman era In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and it appeared in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
'Asira Al Qibliya
’Asira al-Qibliya ( ar, عصيرة القبلية) is a Palestinian village in the Nablus Governorate in the eastern West Bank, located southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the village had a population of 2,336 inhabitants in 2007. Victor Guérin visited the village (which he called ''A'sirah'') in 1870, and he estimated it had three hundred inhabitants. He further noted that the ''medhafeh,'' or guest-house, was situated on the highest ground in the village. In 1882, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described ''Asiret al Kibliyeh'' as a village of moderate size on low ground, with a well to the south-east. British Mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, ‘''Asira al-Qebliyeh'' had a population of 282 Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 326, still all Muslim, in 84 houses.Mills, 1932, p59/ref> In the 1945 statistics the population was 410, all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marda, Salfit
Marda ( ar, مرده) is a Palestinian town located in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, 18 kilometers Southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 1,992 in 2007. According to Ellenblum, no remains from the Byzantine era have been found here. During the Crusader period, Diya' al-Din (1173–1245) writes that there was a Muslim population in the village,Ellenblum, 2003p. 244/ref> and that followers of Ibn Qudamah lived here. The maternal grandmother of Diya' al-Din came from Marda. Yakut (1179–1229) noted that Marda was a "village near Nablus." Sherds from the Crusader/Ayyubid and Mamluk era have been found here.Finkelsten, 1997, pp. 481-2 An important Hanbali judge, ''Amin-ed-dyn 'Abd-er-Rahman'', was born in the village in the early 15th century. Ottoman era Marda was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasuf
Yasuf ( ar, ياسوف) is a Palestinian village located in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, northeast of Salfit, southwest of Nablus and adjacent to the Israeli settlement of Kfar Tapuach. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 1,621 in 2007. In a Samaritan text, the town was known to be inhabited by Samaritan High Priests. Middle ages During the Crusader period, Diya' al-Din (1173–1245) writes that there was a rural mosque in Yasuf, indicating that there was a significant Muslim population in the village at the time.Ellenblum, 2003, p244/ref> He also noted that followers of Ibn Qudamah lived here. Yakut (1179–1229) noted that Yasuf was a "village of Nabulus in the Filastin province. It is celebrated for its abundance of pomegranates." Ottoman period The village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huwwara
Huwara ( ar, حُوّارة, ''ḥuwwarah'', ) is a Palestinian town located in the Nablus Governorate of the northern West Bank, south of Nablus, on the main road connecting Nablus southwards to Ramallah and Jerusalem. It is approximately from Jacob's Well.Rix, 1907, p25/ref> According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 5,800 in 2006. Location Huwwara is located south of Nablus. It is bordered by Awarta, Odala and Beita to the east, Za’tara and Yasuf to the south, Jamma'in and Einabus to the west, and Asira al-Qibliya and Burin to the north. History Huwara is an ancient site, and cisterns and rock-cut tombs have been found, together with remains of columns. It has been suggested that Huwara should be identified with Horon, hometown of Sanballat the Horonite. In the 12th and 13th centuries, Hawara was inhabited by Muslims. Finkelstein did not find any potsherds predating the Ottoman era. Ottoman era The village was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
'Einabus
Einabus ( ar, عينابوس) is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, located 12 kilometers (7 miles) south of Nablus and a part of the Nablus Governorate. Nearby towns include Huwara and Beita to the east and Jammain to the south. increasing slightly in the 1931 census to 244, still all Muslim, in a total of 62 houses. In the 1945 census, the population was 340, all Muslims,Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p18/ref> with of land, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, were for plantations or irrigated land, 2,107 for cereals, while 29 dunams were built-up (urban) land. Jordanian era In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Einabus came under Jordanian rule. The Jordanian census of 1961 found 524 inhabitants in Einabus. Post-1967 Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Einabus has been under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords, 85% of the village land was classified as Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iskaka
Iskaka ( ar, إسكاكا) is a Palestinian town located in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, 27 kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 912 in 2007. increasing in the 1931 census to 186 Muslims in 48 occupied houses. In the 1945 statistics the population was 260 Muslims while the total land area was 5,311 dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 1,309 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 1,624 for cereals, while 12 dunams were classified as built-up areas. Jordanian era In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Iskaka came under Jordanian rule. In 1961, the population of Iskaka was 415. Post-1967 Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Iskaka has been under Israeli occupation. After the 1995 accords, 25% of village land is defined as Area B land, while the remaining 75% is Area C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibn Qudamah
Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī Muwaffaq al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad ( ar, ابن قدامة المقدسي موفق الدين ابو محمد عبد الله بن احمد بن محمد ; 1147 - 7 July 1223), often referred to as Ibn Qudamah or Ibn Qudama for short, was a Sunni Muslim ascetic, jurisconsult, Traditionalist theologian. Having authored many important treatises on Islamic jurisprudence and religious doctrine, including one of the standard works of Hanbali law, the revered ''al-Mug̲h̲nī'', Ibn Qudamah is highly regarded in Sunnism for being one of the most notable and influential thinkers of the Hanbali school of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence. Within that school, he is one of the few thinkers to be given the honorific epithet of '' Shaykh of Islam'', which is a prestigious title bestowed by Sunnis on some of the most important thinkers of their tradition. A proponent of the classical Sunni position of the "differences between the scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nablus
Nablus ( ; ar, نابلس, Nābulus ; he, שכם, Šəḵem, ISO 259-3: ; Samaritan Hebrew: , romanized: ; el, Νεάπολις, Νeápolis) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank, located approximately north of Jerusalem, with a population of 126,132.PCBS02007 Locality Population Statistics. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). Located between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, it is the capital of the Nablus Governorate and a commercial and cultural centre of the State of Palestine, home to An-Najah National University, one of the largest Palestinian institutions of higher learning, and the Palestine Stock Exchange.Amahl Bishara, ‘Weapons, Passports and News: Palestinian Perceptions of U.S. Power as a Mediator of War,’ in John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T. Mitchell, Jeremy Walton (eds.''Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency,''pp.125-136 p.126. Nablus is under the administration of the Palestinian National Authority as part of Area A of the We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire (; peo, 𐎧𐏁𐏂, , ), also called the First Persian Empire, was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great in 550 BC. Based in Western Asia, it was contemporarily the largest empire in history, spanning a total of from the Balkans and Egypt in the west to Central Asia and the Indus Valley in the east. Around the 7th century BC, the region of Persis in the southwestern portion of the Iranian plateau was settled by the Persians. From Persis, Cyrus rose and defeated the Median Empire as well as Lydia and the Neo-Babylonian Empire, marking the formal establishment of a new imperial polity under the Achaemenid dynasty. In the modern era, the Achaemenid Empire has been recognized for its imposition of a successful model of centralized, bureaucratic administration; its multicultural policy; building complex infrastructure, such as road systems and an organized postal system; the use of official languages acro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly applied to Iron Age Europe and the Ancient Near East, but also, by analogy, to other parts of the Old World. The duration of the Iron Age varies depending on the region under consideration. It is defined by archaeological convention. The "Iron Age" begins locally when the production of iron or steel has advanced to the point where iron tools and weapons replace their bronze equivalents in common use. In the Ancient Near East, this transition took place in the wake of the Bronze Age collapse, in the 12th century BC. The technology soon spread throughout the Mediterranean Basin region and to South Asia ( Iron Age in India) between the 12th and 11th century BC. Its further spread to Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and Central Europe is somewhat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hellenistic Period
In Classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year. The Ancient Greek word ''Hellas'' (, ''Hellás'') was gradually recognized as the name for Greece, from which the word ''Hellenistic'' was derived. "Hellenistic" is distinguished from "Hellenic" in that the latter refers to Greece itself, while the former encompasses all ancient territories under Greek influence, in particular the East after the conquests of Alexander the Great. After the Macedonian invasion of the Achaemenid Empire in 330 BC and its disintegration shortly after, the Hellenistic kingdoms were established throughout south-west Asia (Seleucid Empire, Kingdom of Pergamon), north-east Africa ( Ptolemaic Kingdom) and South Asia ( Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Indo-Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
