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Al-Mazar ( Arabic: المزار) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jenin. Situated on Mount Gilboa, its history stretched back to the period of Mamluk rule over Palestine (13th century). An agricultural village, it was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war, and incorporated into the newly established state of Israel. [5]
Etymology. Jenin has been identified as the place "Gina" or "Ginah" mentioned in the Amarna letters from the 14th century BCE, as a town in Canaan.Jenin is commonly identified with the later biblical city of Ein-Ganim, from Hebrew: עֵין גַּנִּים, meaning "the spring of gardens" or "the spring of Ganim", probably referring to the many springs located nearby.
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The villagers traced their origins to al-Sa'diyyun nomads who in turn were descended from al-Shaykh Sa'd al-Din al-Shaybani (d. 1224), a prominent Sufi mystic from the village of Jaba' in the Golan Heights, Syria. Town's Notable People. al-Mazar was the home of al-Shaykh Farhan al-Sa'di, a prominent leader of the 1936 Palestinian rebellion ...
The village was located on the flat, circular peak of the mountain known in biblical scripture as Mount Gilboa, and locally as Mount al-Mazar or Djebel Foukou'ah (« Mount of Mushrooms »). It was joined to the neighbouring village of Nuris by a dirt path. It was situated 9 kilometers northeast from Jenin. Israeli forces broke through to al-Mazat and occupied it after they had captured the ...
AI-Mazar was linked by a dirt path to the village of Nuris below it (see Nuris, Jenin sub-disctrict) and by another path to two adjacent villages. It may have been named al-Mazar (Arabic for 'a shrine,' 'a place one visits') because it was the burial place for many of those who fell in the decisive battle of 'Ayn Jalut (1260), in which the ...
Sep 26, 2021 · Bassam al-Saadi, too, remembers his time growing up in the Jenin camp after his parents fled their village of Al-Mazar, also razed by Jewish militias, when the tales of his great uncle and Qassam ...
