SPECIAL REPORT:
NABLUS: THE PRIDE OF THE OLD TOWN

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NB: Dates, where given, are according to both Muslim and Christian calendars with the Muslim year preceding the Christian one thus: 1176/1672-73. Since the two calendars rarely coincide the Christian equivalent is not usually exact.


I A) Mosques

  1. Jami' al-'Ajaj
  2. Jami' al- Anbiya' (1176/1762-63) Minaret rebuilt 1311/1893
  3. Jami' al-Bayk
  4. Jami' al-Hanabila (933/1526-27) Minaret rebuilt ca. 1333/1913
  5. Jami' al-Kabir (Crusader origin) Minaret rebuilt lO51/1641(?)
  6. Jami' al-Khadra' (Crusader origin?) Converted ca. 689/129O (Plan 4b)
  7. Jami' al-Khidr (1307/1889-9O)
  8. Jami' al-Masakin (Crusader origin)
  9. Jami' al-Nasr (Crusader origin ) Rebuilt 1354/1935
  10. Jami' Satur/Sutun (Founded 688/1289) Restored 1269/1852-53 (Plan 4c)
  11. Jami' al-Tina (131O/1892-93) (Plan 4a)

B) Sacrari e tombe, Shrines and Tombs

  1. Hamm al-'Amud (799/1396 onwards) (Plan 13)
  2. Maqam Muhamma I al-Bashir/Bishr al-Hafi
  3. Turbat al-Shaykh Badr/Budran (672/1273-74)
  4. Wali al-Shaykh Ghanim (on Mt. Gerizim)
  5. Maqam 'Imad al-Din (on Mt. Ebal)
  6. Maqam al-Khidr
  7. Maqam al-Shaykh Mas'ud
  8. Turbat Mujir al-Din (sulla strada Tulkarm - on Tulkarm road
  9. Turbat al-Shaykh Musallam (624/1226)
  10. Turbat Mustafa Bayk al-Faqari (lO51/1586)
  11. Qubbat al-Sharqiyya (62-/122-?) In cemetery
  12. Qubbat al-Gharbiyya In cemetery
  13. Maqam Sitt Sulaymiyya (836/1432-33) (on Mt. Ebal)
  14. Turbat al-Shaykh Muhammad Taba'a
  15. Maqam al-'Umari (1184/177O-71)

C)Religious areas

  1. Zawiyat al-Harithiyya
  2. Zawiyat al-Shaykh Nazmi/Masjid al-Tudmani (752/1351-52) Restored 1116/1704-5
  3. Zawiyax al-Rifa'iyya/Diwan al-Saliqin

D) Non Islamic religious buildings

  1. Greek/orthodoxChurch (AD 1882)
  2. Samaritan Synagogue

E) Springs, fountains and wells

  1. 'Ayn al-'Ajiba
  2. 'Ayn al-'Asil
  3. 'Ayn al-Aysh
  4. 'Ayn Budran/Khitam
  5. Bi'r Dawlab
  6. 'Ayn Ghawazan
  7. 'Ayn al-Khidr (1311/1893-94)
  8. 'Ayn al-Nabulusi (133O/1912)
  9. 'Ayn al-Qariyun
  10. Sabil al-Salahi
  11. Sabil Jami' al-Satur (Plan 3)
  12. Sabil al-Siqaya (574/1177 ?)
  13. 'Ayn al-Sibat
  14. 'Ayn al-Sukkar
  15. 'Ayn al-Tudmani/Tubani
  16. 'Ayn al-Tuta

F)Bath.houses

  1. Hammam al-Baydari (ca. 672/1273-74) (Plan 8; Plan 5a)
  2. Hammam al-Daraja (Plan 5b)
  3. Hammam al-Jadid (1205/179O-91?)
  4. Hammam al-Qadi
  5. Hammam al-Raysh
  6. Hammam al-Samira

G) Caravanserais and markets

  1. Khan al-Jadid
  2. Suq al-Qumash (Plans 4 and 5)
  3. Khan al Tujjar
  4. Khan al-Wakala (121O/1795)(Plan 6)
  5. Khan al-Zabib

H) Soap factories

  1. Masbanat 'Abd al-Hadi
  2. Masbanat 'Abu'l-Rus
  3. Mashanat 'Ahid al-Shaka'a
  4. Masbanat'Alul
  5. Masbanat'Arafat
  6. Masbanat Ashur/Rantisi
  7. Masbanat Fitayir
  8. Masbanat Ghazzawi
  9. Masbanat Kan'an (1)
  10. Masbanat Kan'an (2)
  11. Masbanat Nabulusi (1)
  12. Masbanat Nabulusi (2)
  13. Masbanat Nabulusi (3)
  14. Masbanat Saqa'a
  15. Masbanat Tuqqan (Plan 7)

I)Palaces

  1. Dar 'Abd al-Hadi (1) (1272/1885)
  1. (a). Dar 'Abd al-Hadi (2)
  2. Dar 'Abu Ghazala
  3. Dar 'Arafat
  4. Dar Budran
  5. Dar Ghazzawi (132S/1907)
  6. Dar Hamana
  7. Dar Hashim (1) (1168/1754)
  8. Dar Hashim (2)
  9. Diwan al-Jawhari
  10. Dar Nabulusi
  11. Dar Nadi al-'Arabi
  12. Dar Nimr Agha (Plan 9)
  13. Dar Nimr al-Nabulusi
  14. Dar Sa'd al-Din
  15. Old Saray
  16. Dar Shaykh Mahir
  17. Dar Tamini
  18. Dar Tuffaha
  19. Dar Tuqqan (1) (Plan 1O)
  20. Dar Tuqqan (2) (Plan 11 )
  21. Dar Walwil

Other buildings

  1. Habs al-Dam (Crusader origin)
  2. Manara (1318/1900) Clock Tower
  3. Nablus Tower (Crusader origin)

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