Al-Nabi Shayth Explained

Official Name:Al-Nabi Shayth
Other Name:Nabi Chit
Native Name:Arabic: ٱلنَّبِي شَيْت
Arabic: ٱلنَّبِي شِيْت
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Lebanon#Middle East#Asia
Pushpin Label Position:bottom
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Lebanon
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Governorate
Subdivision Name1:Baalbek-Hermel
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Baalbek
Unit Pref:Imperial
Population Footnotes:Estimate
Coordinates:33.8722°N 36.1128°W
Elevation M:1220

Al-Nabi Shayth (Arabic: ٱلنَّبِي شَيْت|An-Nabī Shayt, also Nabi Chit or Nabi Sheeth (Arabic: ٱلنَّبِي شِيْت|An-Nabī Sheeth), literally "The Prophet Seth"), is a village in the Valley of Beqa'[1] and District of Ba'albek[2] in Lebanon. The village was called by that name because it is considered to contain the burial-site of Seth the son of Adam. A mosque was built on the burial site and it contains the grave of Seth inside the mosque (a rival tradition placed Seth's tomb in the Palestinian village of Bashsheet, and likewise in the Iraqi city of Mosul).[3] The village is also the hometown of Abbas al-Musawi, who was a leader of Hezbollah, and an influential Twelver Shi'ite cleric. The village of Al-Nabi Sheeth is predominantly inhabited by people with the surnames Helbawi, Al-Moussawi, Hazimeh and Chokr.[4]

History

Ibn Jubayr (1145–1217 CE) noted:

In 1838, Eli Smith noted En-Neby Sheeth as a "Metawileh" village in the district of Baalbek.

On 22 December 1998 the Israeli Air Force bombed a farm house in al-Nabi Shayth killing a woman and six children. The target had been an antenna belonging to Hizbollah’s Voice of the Oppressed radio station. Hizbollah responed by firing rockets into Northern Israel, injuring sixteen people. Two weeks later the IAF again tried to destroy the radio mast, injuring seven villagers.[5] On April 14th, 2024, the IDF carried out an airstrike on the settlement, claiming that they were targeting a Hezbollah run weapons manufacturing site.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Palestine Under the Moslems: A Description of Syria and the Holy Land from A.D. 650 to 1500 . Le Strange, G. . Guy Le Strange . . . 1890 . 422 . 1004386 .
  2. Book: Robinson . E. . Edward Robinson (scholar) . Smith . E. . Eli Smith . 1841 . Biblical researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea : a journal of travels in the year 1838 . . . 145 . 3 (2nd appendix).
  3. News: ISIS destroys Prophet Sheth shrine in Mosul . . 2014-07-26.
  4. Web site: أسماء العائلات في بلدة النبي شيت، قضاء بعلبك، محافظة البقاع في لبنان . 2024-06-26 . إعْرَفْ لبنان . en.
  5. Middle East International
  6. Web site: IDF confirms strike on Hezbollah ‘significant weapons manufacturing site’ in northeast Lebanon . 25 June 2024 . Times of Israel.