Jaljulia

Jaljulia (, ), offeecially an aa spelled Jaljulye, is a local cooncil in the Central Destrict o Israel, locatit next tae Hod HaSharon an Kfar Sava. Its population wis 8,500 at the end o 2009. Jaljulia's jurisdiction is 1,900 dunams.

Jaljulia is predominantly Arab an Muslim, wi nae significant Jewish population.

 History 
In Roman times the veelage wis kent as Galgulis, while durin the Crusader period it wis referred tae as Jorgilia. In 1241 C.E. (663 H) it is kent that the Sultan Baybars allocatit equal shares o the veelage tae three o his amirs. Ane o thir, amir Badr al-Din Baktash al-Fakri, includit his section o the veelage in a waqf he established.MPF 92, no 20 Cited in Petersen (2002)p 178

In 1596, Jaljulia wis pairt o the Ottoman Empire, nahiya (subdestrict) o Banu Sa´b unner the Liwa o Nablus, wi a population o 100 hoosehaulds ("Khana").  It peyed taxes on a nummer o crops, includin wheat an baurley, as well as "simmer crops", "occasional revenues", "goats an bees", an a mercat toll. Thare wis an aa a poll tax, jizya, on the Christians an Jews in the locality.Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieiter and Kamal Abdulfattah (1977), Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. p. 140. Quoted in Petersen (2002), p. 176

 Mosque o Abu Awn 

The mosque is locally kent as Jami Abu´l - Awn, which associates it wi the 15t-century releegious leader Shams al-Din Abu´l - Awn Muhammad al-Ghazzi, who is kent tae hae come frae the toun.Mayer et al. (1950), p. 29, 37. Cited in Petersen (2002), p.177 The airchitectur o the mosque is, accordin tae Petersen, consistent wi a 15t or early 16t century construction date.Petersen (2002), p.178

At present the structur consists o ane lairge vaultit chamber, an three sma barrel-vaultit cells. A lairge seicont chamber tae the wast wis destroyed bi Breetish airtillery durin Warld War I.

Kharavanserai
The Khan is locatit on the opposite side o the road o the mosque.

The Khan wis biggit bi Sayf al-Din Tankiz, the govrenor o Damascus 1312-1340,Accordin tae Maqrizi, Cited in  Petersen (2002), p.178 an it wis still functionin in the 16t century, when it wis mentioned in an Ottoman firman.Heyd (1969), p.110. Cited in Petersen (2002), p.178 In the 19t century it wis seen bi Guérin, who describit it as a bonnie khan wi a (ruined) polygonal minaret.Samarie II, 368. Cited in Petersen (2002), p. 179

Petersen, who surveyed the structur in 1996, foond the courtyard entirely owergrown an it wis no possible tae detect ony features athin, housomeivver, he notes that a 19t century visitor haed mentioned that thare wis "a great roond well" in the centre.Ritter (1866), vol 4, p. 249. Cited in Petersen (2002), p. 178

 See an aa 
 Leet o Arab localities in Israel
 Tawfik Khatib
 Shadi Abu Dib

References

Bibliography

Abu Shama (d.1267) (1969): Livre des deux  jardins ("The Book of Two Gardens"). Recueil des Historiens des Croisades, Cited in Petersen (2002).
Heyd, Uriel (1960): Ottoman Documents on Palestine, 1552-1615, Oxford Varsity Press, Oxford. Cited in Petersen (2002)
Mayer, L. A., Pinkerfeld, J. an Yadin, Y. (1950),  Some Principal Muslim Religious Buildings in Israel, Ministry of religious affairs, Jerusalem. Cited in Petersen (2002)
MPF: Ipsirli an al-Tamimi (1982): The Muslim Pious Foundations and Real Estates in Palestine. Gazza, Al-Quds al-Sharif, Nablus and Ajlun Districts according to 16th-Century Ottoman Tahrir Registers, Organisation of Islamic Conference, Istanbul 1402/1982. Cited in Petersen (2002).
Petersen, Andrew (2002): A Gazetteer of Buildings in Muslim Palestine: Volume I (British Academy Monographs in Archaeology)    
Ritter, Carl (1866):  The comparative geography of Palestine and the Sinaitic Peninsula,    vol 4  

 Freemit airtins 
 Offeecial wabsteid   
 Arabic wabsteid 
 CBS statistics on Jaljuliya 

Category:Local cooncils in Israel
Category:Arab localities in Israel