Gharian

Contenu

Titre
Gharian
Créateur
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…
Place
Leiden
Langue
eng
Source
referenceworks.brillonline.com

Roumani, Maurice, “Gharian”, Brill, 2010, bibliographie, consulté le 18 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/3201

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