Al-Shuyukh Explained

Ash-Shuyukh
Translit Lang1:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Type:Arabic
Translit Lang1 Info:الشيوخ
Translit Lang1 Type1:Latin
Translit Lang1 Info1:Al-Shuyukh (official)
Type:Municipality type C
Pushpin Map:Palestine
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Ash-Shuyukh within Palestine
Coordinates:31.5697°N 35.1556°W
Grid Name:Palestine grid
Grid Position:164/109
Subdivision Type:State
Subdivision Name:State of Palestine
Subdivision Type1:Governorate
Subdivision Name1:Hebron
Established Title:Founded
Unit Pref:dunam
Area Total Km2:22.1
Area Total Dunam:22088 (Occupied 10000)
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:12,052
Population As Of:2017
Population Density Km2:auto
Blank Name Sec1:Name meaning
Blank Info Sec1:The Sheiks/ Shyoukhi [2]

Ash-Shuyukh or al-Shuyukh (Arabic: الشيوخ) is a Palestinian town in the Hebron Governorate of the State of Palestine, located 6 km northeast of the city of Hebron. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Ash-Shuyukh had a population of 12,052 in 2017.

Like the rest of the Hebron area, ash-Shuyukh is an agricultural area. Primary crops include olives, figs, almonds, lentils, peaches and apricots. Olive groves cover 980 dunams while grains and pulses cover 680 dunams. There are about 2,000 sheep and goats in the town raised as livestock.[3]

History

Ottoman era

During the Ottoman era, in 1838, Edward Robinson noted esh-Shiyukh as “a well built village”.[4]

French explorer Victor Guérin visited in 1863, and noted that the village was situated on a high rocky hill. It had 200 inhabitants and a small mosque dedicated to a "Cheikh Ibrahim el-Hedmi."[5]

An Ottoman village list of about 1870 counted 33 houses and a population of 99 in Schijuch, though the population count included men only.[6] [7]

In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it as a "well-built village standing high, and visible from Tekua. There are a few trees round it, and caves. The water supply is from cisterns, and there is a spring to the north."[8]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Al Shiukh had a population 792 inhabitants, all Muslims.[9] This had increased at the time of the 1931 census to 925 Muslims, in 180 inhabited houses.[10]

The first school was established in 1940 by Mohammed Mahmoud Eid.

In the 1945 statistics the population of Ash-Shuyukh was 1,240, all Muslims,[11] who owned 22,091 dunams of land according to an official land and population survey.[12] 1,713 dunams were plantations and irrigable land, 3,365 for cereals,[13] while 24 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[14]

Jordanian Era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Ash-Shuyukh came under Jordanian rule It was annexed by Jordan in 1950.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 1,660 inhabitants in Shuyukh.[15]

Post 1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Ash-Shuyukh has been under Israeli occupation.

In 1986, Grossman wrote that the locals were landless, impoverished Dervishes, with some of them originating from the Ashkelon area.[16]

Another school was built in 2002 and named in honor of a resident killed during the al-Aqsa Intifada.

Bibliography

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Notes and References

  1. February 2018 . Preliminary Results of the Population, Housing and Establishments Census, 2017 . Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) . . 64–82 . 2023-10-24.
  2. Palmer, 1881, p. 408
  3. http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/al_Shuyukh_1104/Article_5771.html Shuyukh Agriculture, Economy and History
  4. Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 2, p. 183
  5. Guérin, 1869, p. 150
  6. Socin, 1879, p. 161
  7. Hartmann, 1883, p. 142 noted 35 houses
  8. Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 309
  9. Barron, 1923, Table V, Sub-district of Hebron, p. 10
  10. Mills, 1932, p. 33
  11. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 23
  12. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 50
  13. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 94
  14. Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 144
  15. Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 23
  16. Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 368

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