From the Pages of the Defter (ص 162)
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Shuyukh?™
The small village of Shuyukh is a geographical island of sorts; the village and its lands are
surrounded on all sides by the lands of Sa‘ir. Forty-three apparently modest hanes comprised
the village in 1876. Unusually, particularly since all the residences were classified as hanes, only
two were valued above one thousand kurus. The reason for their low evaluation is not readily
apparent. Village history indicates that Shuyukhi houses were all built of stone. Homes were
built in groups around ahwasha (s. hawsh) a central, open-air courtyard. The homes formed a
physical barrier between the inner courtyard and the outside world. A nuclear family occupied
in the hawsh one thick-walled, high-ceilinged room, often a split-level structure (rdwiya), or a
room on an upper floor (aliyye) over a cave-like storage hall, with the upper living space
reserved for the family and its storage of grains, and the lower area serving as storage and
shelter for livestock, tools, and other possessions. “°° This pattern of building was common
throughout the Hebron district, and ahwasha and rawiyat can be seen throughout the old
center of the town of Hebron as well.7°”
Comparing available population indicators — the number of residences in the Emlak
register (43); the number of households in the village according to the 1905 nufus register
26° Esas-1 Emlak, entries #13,681-13,874.
26° Hamid Muhammad al-Shuyukhi, Qaryat al-Shuyukh — Muhdafazat al-Khalil (The Village of Shuyukh —
Hebron District), (Amman, 1999): 11, 13-21.
*°7 vuthor’s personal observation in Hebron.
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