Jebel Amil

Jebel Amil ( Arabic جبل عامل, DMG Ǧabal ʿĀmil ; also Jabal Amel ) is the historical name of southern Lebanon until the founding of modern Lebanon in 1920. The Jabal Amil region also includes parts of northern Palestine and western Syria .

Surname

Jabal Amil means 'mountain of Amil' and is after the tribe of Amila (also Banu Amela , Arabicبنو عاملة / Banū ʿĀmila ).

Population and history

According to oral tradition , the Shiite population group living in the mountain region describes itself as one of the earliest to have joined the Twelve Shia . Jebel Amil is considered - especially historically - as a leading center of Shiite scholarship, the contribution of the region to the spread of Shiism in the Safavid Empire is extraordinary.

Jebel Amil is also synonymous with the northern part of the historical Galilee .

places

Larger places in Jabal Amel are Tyros , Sarafand , Nabatäa , Tibnine and Bint Jubeil .

literature

Rula Abisaab: Shiʿite Ulama of Jabal ʿĀmel in the Safavid Period . Online edition of the Encyclopaedia Iranica . 2007/2012.
Tamara Chalabi: The Shiʻis of Jabal ʻAmil and the new Lebanon: community and nation state, 1918-1943 . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. ISBN 1403982945

Individual evidence

↑ Max Weiss: In the shadow of sectarianism: law, Shi'ism, and the making of modern Lebanon . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. ISBN 0674059573 . P. 47
↑ Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr: Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational religion and the making of national identities . New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. ISBN 0231144261 . Pp. 13, 126-128.

[1] Max Weiss: In the shadow of sectarianism: law, Shi'ism, and the making of modern Lebanon . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010. ISBN 0674059573 . P. 47

[2] Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr: Shi'ite Lebanon: Transnational religion and the making of national identities . New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. ISBN 0231144261 . Pp. 13, 126-128.