Al-Bazouriyah () is a municipality in

Southern Lebanon Southern Lebanon () is the area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. The two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s. The Rashaya and Western Beqaa districts, the southernmost distr ...

, located in

Tyre District The Tyre District is a district in the South Governorate of Lebanon. Municipalities The following 72 municipalities are all located in the Tyre District: * Al-Aabbassiyah * Aaitit * Aalma ash-Shaab * Ain Abu Aabdallah * Ain az-Zarqa * Ain ...

Governorate of South Lebanon Southern Lebanon () is the area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. The two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s. The Rashaya District, Rashaya and Western Beqaa District, Western ...

Etymology

According to

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, the name means "producing pot-herbs".

History

In 1596, it was named as a village, ''al-Bazuri'', in the Ottoman ''

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'' (subdistrict) of

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under the ''

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'' (district) of

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, with a population of 22 households, all Muslim. The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 25% on agricultural products, such as

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, summer crops, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 4,243

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.Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 180 In 1881, the PEF's ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (SWP) described it: "A village built of stone, containing 300

Metawileh Lebanese Shia Muslims (), communally and historically known as ''matāwila'' (, plural of ''mutawālin''; pronounced as ''metouéle'' in Lebanese Arabic), are Lebanese people who are adherents of Shia Islam in Lebanon, which plays a major role ...

, situated on a ridge. One oil-press and one rock-cut

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are the only antiquities. Water is obtained from a spring half a mile to the west."

Demographics

In 2014

Muslims Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

made up 99.55% of registered voters in Al-Bazouriyah. 97.81% of the voters were

Shiite Muslims Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political successor (caliph) and as the spiritual leader of the Muslim community (imam). However, his right is understood to ...

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Notable people

Al-Bazouriyah was the ancestral home of

Hassan Nasrallah Hassan Nasrallah (, ; 31 August 196027 September 2024) was a Lebanese cleric and politician who served as the third secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militia, from 1992 until his assassination in 2024. Bor ...

References

Bibliography

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External links

Bazouriyeh (archive.org)
Localiban *Survey of Western Palestine, Map 1
IAAWikimedia commons
{{Tyre District Populated places in Tyre District Shia Muslim communities in Lebanon