Deir Abu Da'if

Deir Abu Da'if (Arabic: دير ابو ضعيف‎) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 6 km east of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 5,293 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2]

Deir Abu Da'if
Municipality type C
Arabic transcription(s)
 • Arabicدير ابو ضعيف
Deir Abu Da'if
Location of Deir Abu Da'if within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°27′21″N 35°21′57″E
Palestine grid184/206
StateState of Palestine
GovernorateJenin
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
Population
 (2006)
 • Total5,293
Name meaningThe convent of Abu Daif, p. n.=father of the weak, or lean one[1]

History

Ceramics from the Byzantine era have been found here.[3]

Ottoman era

In 1838, Edward Robinson noted Deir Abu Da'if as one of a range of villages round a height, the other villages being named as Beit Qad, Fuku'a, Deir Ghuzal and Araneh.[4]

In 1870 Victor Guérin noted it as a small village, south of Beit Qad, but less important than it. Guérin called the village for Ed-Deir.[5]

In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it: "A small village near the edge of the hills, on rising ground. The water supply is from cisterns. Olive- gardens exist on the north. The houses are of mud and stone."[6]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, the village had a population of 441; 434 Muslims and 7 Christians,[7] where the Christians were all Orthodox,[8] increasing in the 1931 census to 598; 593 Muslims and 5 Christians, with 136 houses.[9]

In 1944/5 statistics the population was 850, all Muslims,[10] with a total of 12,906 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[11] Of this, 1,919 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 4,836 dunams were for cereals,[12] while 30 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[13]

Jordanian era

After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Deir Abu Da'if came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,191 inhabitants.[14]

Post-1967

Deir Abu Da'if has been under Israeli occupation since the 1967 Six-Day War.

References
  1. Palmer, 1881, p. 160
  2. Projected Mid -Year Population for Jenin Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived September 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  3. Dauphin, 1998, p. 787
  4. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. 157
  5. Guérin, 1874, p. 334
  6. Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 83
  7. Barron, 1923, Table IX, Sub-district of Jenin, p. 29
  8. Barron, 1923, Table XV, p. 47
  9. Mills, 1932, p. 67
  10. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 16
  11. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 54
  12. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 98
  13. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 148
  14. Government of Jordan, 1964, p. 25

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