Mahajjah's principal economic activity is agriculture and the population is rural. The average net income for an individual owning one hectare in the village was around LS 5,000 (US$446). Large landowners who would own 10 hectares would make an average annual income of LS 45,000 (US$4,018).[3]
Local Muslim tradition holds that Muhammad had sat on or leaned against a stone at Mahajjah and that the stone would ease the pain of childbirth.[4] The 13th-century Syrian geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi dismissed the local claim, asserting that Muhammad had not traveled beyond Bosra, a town lying further south of Mahajjah.[5] The late 12th-early 13th-century Persian traveler Ali al-Harawi noted that Mahajjah was one of the ziyarat of the Hauran plain, a site of local Muslim pilgrimage.[6]
Al-Hamawi visited the town during Ayyubid rule, in the 1220s, noting that Mahajjah was "One of the villages of the Hauran" and that local tradition held that "seventy prophets" were buried in the town's Friday mosque.[5] Yusuf al-Muhajji (1287-1338), a native of Mahajjah, became the Chief Qadi of the Shafi'i school of Sunni Islam in 1332, during Mamluk rule. He was dismissed from his post in 1334 and imprisoned, a move that angered the Shafi'is.[7]
In 1596 Mahajjah appeared in the Ottomantax registers as Muhajja and was part of the nahiya of Bani Kilab in the Hauran Sanjak. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 40 households and 24 bachelors. The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives; a total of 28,100 akçe. All of the revenue went to a waqf (= an Islamic charitable institution).[8]
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mahajjah, arabic, محجة, also, spelled, muhajja, mhajjeh, town, izra, district, daraa, governorate, southern, syria, located, north, daraa, situated, about, kilometers, south, capital, damascus, nearby, localities, include, khabab, northeast, tubna, north, inkh. Mahajjah Arabic محجة also spelled Mahajjah Muhajja or Mhajjeh is a town in the Izra District of the Daraa Governorate in southern Syria located north of Daraa It is situated about 63 kilometers south of the capital Damascus Nearby localities include Khabab to the northeast Tubna to the north Inkhil to the northwest Jasim to the west Nawa to the southwest Izra and al Shaykh Maskin to the south and the volcanic Lejat plain to the east In the 2004 census by the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics CBS Mahajjah had a population of 9 982 1 Its inhabitants are predominantly Muslims and Catholics 2 Mahajjah محجةVillageMahajjahCoordinates 32 57 21 N 36 13 17 E 32 95583 N 36 22139 E 32 95583 36 22139Grid position264 262 PALCountry SyriaGovernorateDaraa GovernorateDistrictIzra DistrictNahiyahIzraPopulation 2004 1 Total9 982Time zoneUTC 2 EET Summer DST UTC 3 EEST Mahajjah s principal economic activity is agriculture and the population is rural The average net income for an individual owning one hectare in the village was around LS 5 000 US 446 Large landowners who would own 10 hectares would make an average annual income of LS 45 000 US 4 018 3 Contents 1 History 2 References 3 Bibliography 4 External linksHistory editLocal Muslim tradition holds that Muhammad had sat on or leaned against a stone at Mahajjah and that the stone would ease the pain of childbirth 4 The 13th century Syrian geographer Yaqut al Hamawi dismissed the local claim asserting that Muhammad had not traveled beyond Bosra a town lying further south of Mahajjah 5 The late 12th early 13th century Persian traveler Ali al Harawi noted that Mahajjah was one of the ziyarat of the Hauran plain a site of local Muslim pilgrimage 6 Al Hamawi visited the town during Ayyubid rule in the 1220s noting that Mahajjah was One of the villages of the Hauran and that local tradition held that seventy prophets were buried in the town s Friday mosque 5 Yusuf al Muhajji 1287 1338 a native of Mahajjah became the Chief Qadi of the Shafi i school of Sunni Islam in 1332 during Mamluk rule He was dismissed from his post in 1334 and imprisoned a move that angered the Shafi is 7 In 1596 Mahajjah appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as Muhajja and was part of the nahiya of Bani Kilab in the Hauran Sanjak It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 40 households and 24 bachelors The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 40 on wheat barley summer crops goats and beehives a total of 28 100 akce All of the revenue went to a waqf an Islamic charitable institution 8 References edit a b General Census of Population and Housing 2004 Archived 2012 12 20 at archive today Syria Central Bureau of Statistics CBS Daraa Governorate in Arabic Smith in Robinson and Smith 1841 vol 3 Second appendix B p 151 Batatu 1997 p 51 Rodinson 1980 p 382 a b Le Strange 1890 p 509 Asikainen 2007 p 335 Hakluyt Society 1958 p 137 Translation of Travels of Ibn Battuta A D 1325 1354 Hutteroth and Abdulfattah 1977 p 210Bibliography editAsikainen Raisa 2007 Legitimation of Political Violence The Cases of Hamas and the Khmer Rouge Societas Orientalis Fennica ISBN 978 9519380650 Batatu H 1999 Syria s Peasantry the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables and Their Politics Princeton University Press ISBN 0691002541 Hakluyt Society 1958 Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society The Society Hutteroth Wolf Dieter Abdulfattah Kamal 1977 Historical Geography of Palestine Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten Sonderband 5 Erlangen Germany Vorstand der Frankischen Geographischen Gesellschaft ISBN 3 920405 41 2 Le Strange G 1890 Palestine Under the Moslems A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A D 650 to 1500 Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund Robinson E Smith E 1841 Biblical Researches in Palestine Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea A Journal of Travels in the year 1838 Vol 3 Boston Crocker amp Brewster Rodinson M 1980 Muhammad Pantheon Books ISBN 0394509080 External links editMap of town Google Maps Naoua map 20L Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Mahajjah amp oldid 1211141633, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
