Palestinian Metawalis
Palestinian Metawalis are a Palestinian Shiite community. Louis Lortet and Ernest Renan believe that Metawalis are Kurds, who migrated from Iraq to Palestine in the 13th century.[1] During the time of Mandatory Palestine, Palestinian Metawalis had seven villages wherein they constituted the majority.[2] During the first census of the British protectorate, Palestinian Metawalis were one of eight religious demographic groups categorized,[3] and tensions existed regarding whether these people would be geopolitically united with their Shiite Arab counterparts in southern Lebanon.[2]
References[]
- ^ Weiss, Max (2010). In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi`ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon. Princeton, New Jersey: Harvard University Press. p. 44. ISBN 0674052986.
- ^ a b "The Seven Lost Villages". 4 August 2006 – via Haaretz.
- ^ Barron, Table I.
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