Space, Kinship and Gender (ص 159)
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NOTES ON THE FALLAHEEN LOWER QUARTER (EL HARAH ET-TEHTAR) :
Fig.4.45: Location of the lower quarter
Lower quarter houses
Courtvards of houses
Sacred tombs
Communal oil press
Communal cemefry
The fallaheen areas included two major quarters: the shu'aibi quarter
and the fallaheen lower quarter, in addition to the two small Misshel
and Halabieh quarters (see page 85). Having so far compared at
length the built-space of the Barghouthi and Shu'aibi (fallaheen)
clans, I will now only summarize the most prominant spatial features
that characterized the fallaheen lower quarter:
1. Unlike both the Barghouthi and the Shu'aibi quarters which were
inhabited by members of two clans of a homogenious origin, the lower
quarter was inhabited descendents of three different descent groups
(if we except the small and marginal al-Khatib family): the Rabi
group (which was the biggest and the most prominant), the Nasir, the
'Adi. These three clans (particularly the Rabi and the ‘'Adi)
intermarried from one another, and from the rest of the fallaheen
clans. Despite distinctions of descent those families were
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