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154 The difference
pronunciation the villagers use, Hebronites refer to the village as Idna.
between the two spellings in Arabic is the matter of a dot: 4is pronounced with a “d” sound
and 4 with a “dh” sound. In the emlak register, the village’s name is written Idna. | have
matched this with the village recorded as “Luna” (or Lawna) in the 1871 sa/name due to its
nahiya affiliation, the logically congruent population figures for the two places, the process
of elimination as | went through the village lists, and the possibility of misreading the letters
of the Arabic words in handwritten script: U4! (Idna) and Li 9! (Luna, or Lawna). There was no
village Idna/Idhna listed in the sa/name, and there was no village known by the name of
Luna / Lawna in Hebron in the late nineteenth century or since.
A wrench is thrown into the motor of this theory, however, when we consult early-
Ottoman tapu registers. In the sixteenth century, there were in the Hebron district a village
named Idna 44! and a village named Lawza, !39 which is also just a small pen stroke away
from Luna / Lawna.”” Of course, there is a three-century interlude that needs to be taken
into account here, but tentatively we may suggest that this is more than coincidence, and
“1 lived for three years in Hebron.
*° Adnan al-Bakhit and Noufan Raja al-Sawariyyah, Liwd’ al-Quds al-Sharif min Daftar Tahrir TD 131, 932-
938AH / 1525-1531/32 (London: al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 2007). Also see the list of village
for the Hebron nahiya during the sixteenth century produced in Toledano “Sancak Yerushalaim ba-meah
Ha-tet”zany — Hityashvut Kfarit ve Magamot Demografiot (The Jerusalem Sancak in the Sixteenth
Century—Village Settlement and Demographic Trends) in Amnon Cohen, ed., Prakim ba-Toldot
Yerushlaim ba-Rishit HaTqufa HaOthmanit (Chapters in the History of Jerusalem in the Early Ottoman
Period), 75.
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