Barazin

Barazin, also spelled Barazayn (Arabic: برازين), is a town in the Amman Governorate of north-western Jordan.[1]

Barazin
Barazin
Location in Jordan
Coordinates: 31°47′N 35°52′E
Country Jordan
GovernorateAmman
Time zoneUTC + 2

History

Modern Barazin was founded in the 1870s when its lands were granted by the Ottomans to a Beni Sakhr chieftain, Fandi Al Fayez, and his son Sattam, the father of Mithqal Al Fayez, who also became a major landowner in Transjordan.[2] The village began to be cultivated during the family's ownership, before the settlement of Madaba in 1880 by local Christians.[3] Barazin is mentioned as one of nine Bedouin-owned plantation settlements in the Balqa area of Transjordan in 1883 where settlement had been largely confined to the town of Salt during the preceding two centuries.[4] In the beginning of the 20th century, villagers from Lifta near Jerusalem purchased land in Barazin.[5] In 1932, Mithqal offered the Jewish Agency a mortgage of his lands in Barazin in return for a loan.[6]

References

  1. Maplandia world gazetteer
  2. Fischbach 2011, p. 15.
  3. Abujaber 1999, p. 140.
  4. Rogan 1994, p. 47, note 41.
  5. Fischbach 2011, p. 59.
  6. Alon 2016, p. 121.

Bibliography

  • Abujaber, Raouf (1999). "Jaussen's Contribution to the Study of Agricultural Development in Moab and Southern Palestine around 1900". In Chatelard, Géraldine; Tarawneh, Mohammed (eds.). Antonin Jaussen, sciences sociales occidentales et patrimoine arabe. Beirut: Presses de l'Ifpo. pp. 139–144. ISBN 9782351595039.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Alon, Yoav (2016). The Shaykh of Shaykhs: Mithqal al-Fayiz and Tribal Leadership in Modern Jordan. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804796620.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Fischbach, Michael R. (2011). State, Society, and Land in Jordan. Leiden and Boston: Brill. ISBN 90-04-11912-4.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Rogan, Eugene L. (1994). "Bringing the State Back: The Limits of Ottoman Rule in Jordan, 1840–1910". In Rogan, Eugene L.; Tell, Tariq (eds.). Village, Steppe and State: The Social Origins of Modern Jordan. London: British Academic Press. p. 47, note 41. ISBN 1-85043-829-3.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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