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Nabi Rubin
Nabi Rubin (from Arabic: النبي روبين, romanized: an-Nabī Rūbīn) was a town depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war in Palestine, now Israel, located 14.5 kilometers (9.0 mi) west of Ramla, just northeast of Yibna, and 18 kilometers (11 mi) south of Jaffa. The village was situated on the southern banks of the Nahal Sorek/Wadi al-Sarar at an elevation of 25 meters (82 ft) above sea level.
Nabi Rubin is named after a maqam (shrine) in the village, believed by Muslims to be the tomb of biblical Reuben, first son of Jacob. A Bedouin village of the Malalkha tribe, it evolved into a permanent settlement in the early 20th century. It was captured by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the inhabitants were expelled.
The Arabic name, means "the prophet Rubin", with Rubin being the Arabic form of the Biblical Hebrew name Re'uven or Re'uben.
Walid Khalidi writes that it is believed that the shrine for al-Nabi Rubin was built in the same place where a Canaanite temple had once stood, and that the mawsim ("religious festival") itself was pagan in origin.
Nabi Rubin was a place of trade between Crusaders and Muslims before it being inhabited. In 1184, it held a fair where Arab merchants from Damascus traded slaves, Persian and Kurdish-bred horses, weapons, and blades from Yemen and India, with Christians from Acre. This trade continued until wars between the Mamluks and Crusaders commenced in the 13th century.
The Nabi Rubin mawsim was one of two prominent mawsims for Biblical prophets in Palestine—the other being dedicated to Nabi Musa "the prophet Moses" near Jericho.
The site comprised a mosque, a minaret, (now demolished), and a maqam (shrine), as well as at least nine wells dispersed in the sand dunes nearby. The oldest part of the present structure is the maqam, which, according to an inscription, was built under the orders of a Mamluk governor of Gaza, Timraz al-Mu'ayyadi, between 1436 and 1437.
The qadi Mujir al-Din wrote in 1495 it "is a tomb of our Reuben," thereon crystallizing in local Muslim tradition that the site is the burial place of Reuben, son of Jacob and Leah. Despite popular belief, the tomb may possibly be that of an Arab sheikh. Mujir ad-Din noted it was a place of pilgrimage.
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Nabi Rubin
Nabi Rubin (from Arabic: النبي روبين, romanized: an-Nabī Rūbīn) was a town depopulated during the 1947–1949 Palestine war in Palestine, now Israel, located 14.5 kilometers (9.0 mi) west of Ramla, just northeast of Yibna, and 18 kilometers (11 mi) south of Jaffa. The village was situated on the southern banks of the Nahal Sorek/Wadi al-Sarar at an elevation of 25 meters (82 ft) above sea level.
Nabi Rubin is named after a maqam (shrine) in the village, believed by Muslims to be the tomb of biblical Reuben, first son of Jacob. A Bedouin village of the Malalkha tribe, it evolved into a permanent settlement in the early 20th century. It was captured by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the inhabitants were expelled.
The Arabic name, means "the prophet Rubin", with Rubin being the Arabic form of the Biblical Hebrew name Re'uven or Re'uben.
Walid Khalidi writes that it is believed that the shrine for al-Nabi Rubin was built in the same place where a Canaanite temple had once stood, and that the mawsim ("religious festival") itself was pagan in origin.
Nabi Rubin was a place of trade between Crusaders and Muslims before it being inhabited. In 1184, it held a fair where Arab merchants from Damascus traded slaves, Persian and Kurdish-bred horses, weapons, and blades from Yemen and India, with Christians from Acre. This trade continued until wars between the Mamluks and Crusaders commenced in the 13th century.
The Nabi Rubin mawsim was one of two prominent mawsims for Biblical prophets in Palestine—the other being dedicated to Nabi Musa "the prophet Moses" near Jericho.
The site comprised a mosque, a minaret, (now demolished), and a maqam (shrine), as well as at least nine wells dispersed in the sand dunes nearby. The oldest part of the present structure is the maqam, which, according to an inscription, was built under the orders of a Mamluk governor of Gaza, Timraz al-Mu'ayyadi, between 1436 and 1437.
The qadi Mujir al-Din wrote in 1495 it "is a tomb of our Reuben," thereon crystallizing in local Muslim tradition that the site is the burial place of Reuben, son of Jacob and Leah. Despite popular belief, the tomb may possibly be that of an Arab sheikh. Mujir ad-Din noted it was a place of pilgrimage.
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