Gharian

Contenu

Titre

Gharian

Auteur

Roumani, Maurice

Date

2010

Dans

Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World

Résumé

Gharian is a town in northwestern Libya about 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Tripoli in the Nafusa Mountains. It is considered to constitute a single unit with the nearby towns of Tighrinna and Banu Abbas. All three towns had Jewish inhabitants, but most of them lived in Tighrinna, just south of Gharian, which was referred to variously as ḥārat al-yahūd (the Jewish Quarter) and arḍ al-yahūd (Jewish Land). Gharian town had the smallest Jewish population of the three settlements. According to the 1944 census there were ninety Jews in Gharian, 343 in Tighrinn…

Editeur

Brill

Place

Leiden

Sujet

Judaïsme -- Djebel Nefousa

Langue

eng

uri

https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-jews-in-the-islamic-world/gharian-SIM_0008440