| at-Tayba | |
| Translit Lang1: | Arabic |
| Translit Lang1 Type: | Arabic |
| Translit Lang1 Info: | خربة الطيبه |
| Type: | Municipality type C |
| Pushpin Map: | Palestine |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of at-Tayba within Palestine |
| Coordinates: | 32.5153°N 35.1892°W |
| Grid Name: | Palestine grid |
| Grid Position: | 167/213 |
| Subdivision Type: | State |
| Subdivision Name: | State of Palestine |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | Jenin |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Unit Pref: | dunam |
| Population Total: | 2,215[1] |
| Population As Of: | 2017 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Name meaning |
| Blank Info Sec1: | The goodly[2] |
At-Tayba (Arabic: خربة الطيبه) is a Palestinian village in the West Bank, located 18 km northwest of the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, and 2 km east of Umm el-Fahm in Israel. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a population of 2,386 inhabitants in mid-year 2006 and 2,215 in 2017.[3]
The current village was covering as of 2016 the slopes surrounding an ancient khirba (ruined village), Khirbet et-Taiybeh.[4] The ancient village only covered the southern slope of a hill and the ravine to its south.[4] Excavations indicate that it was mainly active in the Late Roman,[4] Byzantine,[4] [5] and Medieval periods,[4] with lesser findings from the Persian, Early Muslim and Ottoman periods.[4]
All of Palestine was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517.
Zertal writes that after no mention of the village in Medieval sources, a "Tayyiba" of six Muslim households appears in the Ottoman census of 1596, but he found no proof that this is the same settlement as the future Khirbet et-Taiybeh, known today as At-Tayba.[4] Hütteroth and Abdulfattah also mention the 1596 tax register with "Tayyiba" being part of the nahiya (subdistrict) of Sha'ara under the liwa' (district) of Lajjun, with a population of 6 Muslim households.[6] The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, beehives and/or goats, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 3,500 akçe.[6]
Al-Tayiba began as a small dependency of the so-called "Fahmawi Commonwealth" established by Hebronite clans belonging to Umm al-Fahm. The Commonwealth consisted of a network of interspersed communities connected by ties of kinship, and socially, economically and politically affiliated with Umm al Fahm. The Commonwealth dominated vast sections of Bilad al-Ruha/Ramot Menashe, Wadi 'Ara and Marj Ibn 'Amir/Jezreel Valley during that time.[7]
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village, as Tayibat Umm al-Fahm (with a classifier after the major neighboring village) in the nahiya of Shafa al-Gharby.[8]
In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine found here "a modern ruined village with springs."[9]
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, At-Tayba came under Jordanian rule.
The Jordanian census of 1961 found 467 inhabitants in Taiyiba.[10]
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, At-Tayba has been under Israeli occupation.
. Edward Henry Palmer . 1881 . The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer . .
. Zertal . Adam . Adam Zertal . Mirkam . Nivi . The Manasseh Hill Country Survey . 3 . Boston . BRILL . 2016 . 978-9004312302 .
