Jabal Amel or Jabal ’Amil (jabal ʿāmil) is a mountainous region of Southern Lebanon. 86 relations.
Jabal Amel - Unionpedia, the concept map Communication New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device! Free Faster access than browser! Jabal Amel Jabal Amel or Jabal 'Amil (jabal ʿāmil) is a mountainous region of Southern Lebanon. [1] 83 relations: Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi, Abdullah Pasha ibn Ali, Adel Osseiran, Ahmad Motevaselian, Ahmad Rida, Ahmed Aref El-Zein, Al-Bassa, Al-Hurr al-Aamili, Al-Malkiyya, Al-Mourabitoun, Al-Sayyed Mohsen al-Amin, Ali Al-Kourani, Amil, Arslan Mehmed Pasha, Ata'ollah Ashrafi Esfahani, Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī, Banu Al-Mashrouki, Banu Amela, Banu Hamdan, Banu Judham, Baraachit, Bashir Shihab II, Battle of Ain Dara, Battle of Lake Huleh (1771), Deyrintar, Five Martyrs of Shia Islam, Guardians of the Cedars, Hassan Nasrallah, Ideology of Safavids, Irkay, Islam in Iran, Islamic Jihad Organization, Islamic Unification Movement, Ismail as-Sadr, Jazzar Pasha, Joseph Trumpeldor, Kahlan, Kataeb Regulatory Forces, Lebanese Arab Army, Lebanese National Resistance Front, Lebanese people (Shia Muslims), Lebanese people in Iran, Lebanese Resistance Regiments, Lebanon, Mahdi Amel, Mansur Shihab, Maroun al-Ras, Mosaic of Rehob, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Muhammad Jaber Al Safa, ..., Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili, Muqtada al-Sadr, Musa al-Sadr, Nabatieh, Nabatieh Governorate, Nasif al-Nassar, Operation Change of Direction 11, Popular Guard, Qays–Yaman rivalry, Qays–Yaman war (793–796), Ragheb Harb, Religion in Iran, Rima Fakih, Sadr (name), Sadr al-Din bin Saleh, Safad Sanjak, Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia Islam, Sayyid, Shia–Sunni relations, Shihab dynasty, Sons of the South, South Lebanon Army, Southern Lebanon, Sulayman Pasha al-Azm, Tebnine, Tigers Militia, Ulama, Upper Galilee, War of the Camps, Water supply and sanitation in Lebanon, Yusuf Shihab, Zahir al-Umar, Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i al'Amili. Expand index (33 more) » « Shrink index Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-MusawiAbd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi (عبدالحسين شرف الدين الموسوي) was a Shi'a twelver Islamic scholar.New!!: Jabal Amel and Abd al-Husayn Sharaf al-Din al-Musawi · See more »Abdullah Pasha ibn AliAbdullah Pasha ibn Ali (commonly referred to simply as Abdullah Pasha; 1801–?) was the Ottoman governor (wali) of Sidon Eyalet between May 1820 and May 1832, with a nine-month interruption in 1822–23.New!!: Jabal Amel and Abdullah Pasha ibn Ali · See more »Adel OsseiranAdel Osseiran (Arabic: عادل عسيران) was a prominent Lebanese statesman, a former Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, and one of the founding fathers of the Lebanese Republic.New!!: Jabal Amel and Adel Osseiran · See more » Ahmad MotevaselianAhmad Motevaselian (احمد متوسلیان), an Iranian military attaché, was one of four Iranians that disappeared in Lebanon in 1982.New!!: Jabal Amel and Ahmad Motevaselian · See more »Ahmad RidaSheikh Ahmad Rida (also transliterated as Ahmad Reda) (1872–1953) (الشيخ أحمد رضا) was a Levantine Arab linguist, writer and politician.New!!: Jabal Amel and Ahmad Rida · See more »Ahmed Aref El-ZeinSheikh Ahmed Aref El-Zein (10 July 1884 – 13 October 1960) (Arabic: شيخ أحمد عارف الزين) was a Shi'a intellectual from the Jabal Amil (جبل عامل) area of South Lebanon.New!!: Jabal Amel and Ahmed Aref El-Zein · See more »Al-Bassaal-Bassa' (البصة), also known as Betzet in בצת, was a Palestinian Arab village in the Mandatory Palestine's Acre Subdistrict.New!!: Jabal Amel and Al-Bassa · See more »Al-Hurr al-AamiliMuhammad bin al-Ḥasan b. Ali b. al-Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmili al-Mashghari (محمد بن الحسن بن علي بن الحسين العاملي المشغري), commonly known as Al-Ḥurr Al-ʿĀmili (الحر العاملي) (1033/1624 - 1104/1693), was a muhaddith and a prominent Twelver Shi’a scholar.New!!: Jabal Amel and Al-Hurr al-Aamili · See more »Al-MalkiyyaAl-Malikiyya (المالكية) was a Palestinian village located in the Jabal Amil region.New!!: Jabal Amel and Al-Malkiyya · See more »Al-MourabitounThe Independent Nasserite Movement – INM (translit) or simply Al-Murabitoun (المرابطون lit. The Steadfast), also termed variously Mouvement des Nasséristes Indépendants (MNI) in French, Independent Nasserite Organization (INO), or Movement of Independent Nasserists (MIN), is a Nasserist political party in Lebanon that is closely allied with Shia organization Hezbollah.New!!: Jabal Amel and Al-Mourabitoun · See more »Al-Sayyed Mohsen al-AminAl-Sayyed Mohsen al-Amin (b.1284/1867-d.1371/1952) was a Shia scholar, biographer, traditionist, and jurist.New!!: Jabal Amel and Al-Sayyed Mohsen al-Amin · See more »Ali Al-KouraniAli al-Kourani (علي الكوراني) is a Lebanese Shia cleric.New!!: Jabal Amel and Ali Al-Kourani · See more »AmilAmil is a name of Arabic and Indian origin.New!!: Jabal Amel and Amil · See more » Arslan Mehmed PashaMatarci Arslan Mehmed Pasha, also spelled Arslan Muhammad Pasha ibn al-Mataraji (died 1704), was the wali of Tripoli in 1694–1700 and 1702–1703, Damascus in 1701 and Sidon in 1703–1704.New!!: Jabal Amel and Arslan Mehmed Pasha · See more »Ata'ollah Ashrafi EsfahaniAyatollah Ata'ollah Ashrafi Esfahani (آیتالله عطاءالله اشرفی اصفهانی., 1902–1982) was an Iranian religious leader.New!!: Jabal Amel and Ata'ollah Ashrafi Esfahani · See more »Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilīBahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī (also known as Sheikh Baha'i, شیخ بهایی) (18 February 1547 – 1 September 1621) was a Shia Islamic scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet who lived in the late 16th and early 17th centuries in Safavid Iran.New!!: Jabal Amel and Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilī · See more »Banu Al-MashroukiAn Arab tribe in Lebanon.New!!: Jabal Amel and Banu Al-Mashrouki · See more »Banu AmelaThe Banu Amela (Banū 'Āmela) are a South Arabian tribe that migrated from the towns of Bardoun, Yarim, Mayrayama and Jibla in the central highlands and the Raimah region in Yemen (Jabalan Al Ardaba, Jabalan Al Raymah).New!!: Jabal Amel and Banu Amela · See more »Banu HamdanBanu Hamdan (همدان; Musnad: 𐩠𐩣𐩵𐩬) was a well known Yemeni clan since the 1st millennium BCE.New!!: Jabal Amel and Banu Hamdan · See more »Banu JudhamThe Banu Judham (بنو جذام, or) is a Yemeni tribe that emigrated to Syria and Egypt and dwelled with the Azd and Hamdan Kahlani tribes.New!!: Jabal Amel and Banu Judham · See more »BaraachitBaraachit (برعشيت.), also spelt Brashit, is a rural town located in the Nabatiye Governorate, in the Bint Jbeil District of southern Lebanon, ca.New!!: Jabal Amel and Baraachit · See more »Bashir Shihab IIBashir Shihab II (also spelt "Bachir Chehab II"; 2 January 1767–1850.) was a Lebanese emir who ruled Lebanon in the first half of the 19th century.New!!: Jabal Amel and Bashir Shihab II · See more »Battle of Ain DaraThe Battle of Ain Dara took place in the town of Ain Dara in 1711 between the Qaysi and Yamani tribo-political factions.New!!: Jabal Amel and Battle of Ain Dara · See more »Battle of Lake Huleh (1771)In the Battle of Lake Huleh on 2 September 1771, the rebel forces of Zahir al-Umar and Nasif al-Nassar routed the army of Uthman Pasha al-Kurji, the Ottoman governor of Damascus, at Lake Huleh in the eastern Galilee.New!!: Jabal Amel and Battle of Lake Huleh (1771) · See more »DeyrintarDeyrintar (Dayr Antar, Deir Intar, دير انطار) is a small village in Southern Lebanon in the Bint Jbeil District in Nabatieh Governorate.New!!: Jabal Amel and Deyrintar · See more »Five Martyrs of Shia IslamThe five Martyrs (الشھداء الخمسۃ) were five ulama of Shi'i Islam, living in different spans of history, who were executed by their respective regimes.New!!: Jabal Amel and Five Martyrs of Shia Islam · See more »Guardians of the CedarsThe Guardians of the Cedars (GoC') (Arabic: حراس الأرز; Ḥurrās al-Arz; French: Gardiens du Cedre or Gardiens des Cèdres, GdC) are a far-right ultranationalist Lebanese party and former Christian militia in Lebanon.New!!: Jabal Amel and Guardians of the Cedars · See more »Hassan NasrallahHassan Nasrallah (حسن نصرالله; born 31 August 1960) is the third and current Secretary General of the Lebanese political and paramilitary party Hezbollah since his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi, was assassinated by the Israel Defense Forces in February 1992.New!!: Jabal Amel and Hassan Nasrallah · See more »Ideology of SafavidsForeigners had ruled Iran for years, when Shia movements began in the 15th century.New!!: Jabal Amel and Ideology of Safavids · See more »IrkayIrkay (Arabic إركي) (also known as Irkey, Erki, Erkay) is a small town located in the South of Lebanon (Al Janub) between the major cities of Sidon and Sur.New!!: Jabal Amel and Irkay · See more »Islam in IranThe Islamic conquest of Persia (637–651) led to the end of the Sasanian Empire and the eventual decline of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia.New!!: Jabal Amel and Islam in Iran · See more »Islamic Jihad OrganizationThe Islamic Jihad Organization – IJO (حركة الجهاد الإسلامي., Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami) or Organisation du Jihad Islamique (OJI) in French, but best known as "Islamic Jihad" (Arabic: Jihad al-Islami) for short, was a Shia militia known for its activities in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War.New!!: Jabal Amel and Islamic Jihad Organization · See more »Islamic Unification MovementThe Islamic Unification Movement – IUM (حركة التوحيد الإسلامي | Harakat al-Tawhid al-Islami), also named Islamic Unity Movement or Mouvement de Unification Islamique (MUI) in French, but best known as Al-Tawhid, At-Tawhid, or Tawheed, is a Lebanese Sunni Muslim political party.New!!: Jabal Amel and Islamic Unification Movement · See more »Ismail as-SadrIsmail as-Sadr (اسماعيل الصدر) (died 1919-1920) was a Lebanese Grand Ayatollah (literally "sign of Allah"), a title which is used in Iran and Iraq referring to a Twelver Shi'a scholar who is a fully qualified mujtahid who asserts authority over peers and followers by virtue of sufficient study and achievement of the level of necessary competencey needed to obtain permission (ijāza) to practice ijtihad.New!!: Jabal Amel and Ismail as-Sadr · See more »Jazzar PashaAhmad Pasha al-Jazzar (أحمد الجزار; Cezzar Ahmet Paşa; ca. 1720–30s7 May 1804) was the Acre-based Ottoman governor of Sidon from 1776 until his death in 1804.New!!: Jabal Amel and Jazzar Pasha · See more »Joseph TrumpeldorJoseph Vladimirovich (Volfovich) Trumpeldor (November 21, 1880 – March 1, 1920, יוסף וולדימירוביץ' (וולפוביץ') טרוּמְפֶּלְדּוֹר, Иосиф Владимирович (Вольфович) Трумпельдор), was an early Zionist activist and war hero.New!!: Jabal Amel and Joseph Trumpeldor · See more »KahlanKahlan (كهلان) was one of the main tribal federations of Saba'a in Yemen.New!!: Jabal Amel and Kahlan · See more »Kataeb Regulatory ForcesThe Kataeb Regulatory Forces – KRF or RF (Arabic: قوى الكتائب النظامية |), Forces Regulatoires du Kataeb (FRK) in French, were the military wing of the right-wing Lebanese Christian Kataeb Party, otherwise known as the 'Phalange', from 1961 to 1977.New!!: Jabal Amel and Kataeb Regulatory Forces · See more »Lebanese Arab ArmyThe Lebanese Arab Army – LAA (Arabic: جيش لبنان العربي transliteration Jaysh Lubnan al-Arabi), also known as the Arab Army of Lebanon (AAL), Arab Lebanese Army or Armée du Liban Arabe (ALA) in French, was a predominantly Muslim splinter faction of the Lebanese Army that came to play a key role in the 1975–77 phase of the Lebanese Civil War.New!!: Jabal Amel and Lebanese Arab Army · See more »Lebanese National Resistance FrontThe Lebanese National Resistance Front – LNRF (Jabhat al-Muqawama al-Wataniyya al-Lubnaniyya) or Front National de la Résistance Libanaise (FNRL) in French, but best known by its Arabic acronym, ‘Jammoul’ (جمول), was an underground guerrilla alliance active in Lebanon in the 1980s.New!!: Jabal Amel and Lebanese National Resistance Front · See more »Lebanese people (Shia Muslims)Lebanese people refers to Lebanese people who are adherents of the Shia branch of Islam in Lebanon, which is the largest Muslim denomination in the country tied with Sunni Muslims.New!!: Jabal Amel and Lebanese people (Shia Muslims) · See more »Lebanese people in IranLebanese people in Iran refers to Lebanese living in Iran or Iranians of Lebanese descent.New!!: Jabal Amel and Lebanese people in Iran · See more »Lebanese Resistance RegimentsThe Lebanese Resistance Regiments (أفواج المقاومة اللبنانية | Afwaj al-Muqawama al-Lubnaniyya, AMAL), also designated Lebanese Resistance Battalions, Lebanese Resistance Detachments, Lebanese Resistance Legions and Battalions de la Resistance Libanaise (BRL) or Légions de la Resistance Libanaise (LRL) in French, but simply known by its Arabic acronym Amal which means "Hope", were the military wing of the Movement of the Dispossessed or Movement of the Deprived, a political organization representing the Muslim Shia community of Lebanon.New!!: Jabal Amel and Lebanese Resistance Regiments · See more »LebanonLebanon (لبنان; Lebanese pronunciation:; Liban), officially known as the Lebanese RepublicRepublic of Lebanon is the most common phrase used by Lebanese government agencies.New!!: Jabal Amel and Lebanon · See more »Mahdi AmelHassan Abdullah Hamdan (Arabic: حسن عبد الله حمدان), more commonly known by his pseudonym Mahdi 'Amel (Arabic: مهدي عامل), was an Arab Marxist intellectual and political activist in the second half of the 20th century.New!!: Jabal Amel and Mahdi Amel · See more »Mansur ShihabMansur Shihab was the Emir of Mount Lebanon between 1754 and 1770.New!!: Jabal Amel and Mansur Shihab · See more »Maroun al-RasMaroun al-Ras (مارون الراس) is a Lebanese village nestled in Jabal Amel (Mount Amel) in the district of Bint Jbeil in the Nabatiye Governorate in southern Lebanon.New!!: Jabal Amel and Maroun al-Ras · See more »Mosaic of RehobThe Mosaic of Reḥob (also known as the Tel Rehov inscription and Baraita of the Boundaries) is a mosaic discovered in 1973, inlaid in the floor of the foyer or narthex of an ancient synagogue near Tel Rehov, south of Beit She'an and about west of the Jordan River, containing the longest written text hitherto discovered in any mosaic in the Land of Israel, and also the oldest known Talmudic text.New!!: Jabal Amel and Mosaic of Rehob · See more »Muhammad Baqir al-SadrMuhammad Baqir al-Sadr (آية الله العظمى السيد محمد باقر الصدر) (March 1, 1935 – April 9, 1980) was an Iraqi Shia cleric, philosopher, and ideological founder of the Islamic Dawa Party, born in al-Kazimiya, Iraq.New!!: Jabal Amel and Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr · See more »Muhammad Jaber Al SafaMuhammad Jaber Āl Safa (also spelled Jabir Al Safa) (1875–1945) was a historian, writer and politician from Jabal Amel (in modern-day Lebanon), known for his founding role in the anti-colonialist Arab nationalist movement in turn-of-the-century Levant.New!!: Jabal Amel and Muhammad Jaber Al Safa · See more »Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-AmiliMuhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili al-Jizzini, (1334–1385) also known as Shahid Awwal (Arabic: الشهيد الأولash-Shahid al-Awwal "The First Martyr"), is the author of Al-Lum'ah ad-Dimashqiya (Arabic: اللمعة الدمشقية, The Damascene Glitter") and was a Shi'a scholar.New!!: Jabal Amel and Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili · See more »Muqtada al-SadrMuqtada al-Sadr (Muqtadā ṣ-Ṣadr; born 12 August 1973) is an Iraqi Shia cleric, politician and militia leader.New!!: Jabal Amel and Muqtada al-Sadr · See more »Musa al-SadrMusa al-Sadr (سید موسى صدر; 4 June 1928 – disappeared in Libya on 31 August 1978) is a Lebanese-Iranian philosopher and Shi'a religious leader from a long line of distinguished clerics tracing their ancestry back to Jabal Amel. Born in the Cheharmardan neighbourhood of Qom, Iran, he underwent both seminary and secular studies in Iran. He left Qom for Najaf to study theology and returned to Iran after the 1958 Iraqi coup d'état. He belongs to the Sadr family from Jabal Amel in Lebanon, a branch of Musawi family tracing to Musa Ibn Jaafar, the seventh Shia Imam and ultimately to the Prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatima. Therefore Musa al-Sadr is often styled with the honorific title Sayyid. Some years later, Sadr went to Tyre, Lebanon as the emissary of Ayatollahs Borujerdi and Hakim. Fouad Ajami called him a "towering figure in modern Shi'i political thought and praxis"., chapter 26 He gave the Shia population of Lebanon "a sense of community". In Lebanon, he founded and revived many organizations including schools, charities, and the Amal Movement. On 25 August 1978, Sadr and two companions departed for Libya to meet with government officials at the invitation of Muammar Gaddafi. The three were last seen on 31 August. They were never heard from again. Many theories exist around the circumstances of Sadr's disappearance, none of which have been proven.New!!: Jabal Amel and Musa al-Sadr · See more »NabatiehNabatieh (النبطية), or Nabatîyé, is the city of the Nabatieh Governorate, in southern Lebanon.New!!: Jabal Amel and Nabatieh · See more »Nabatieh GovernorateNabatieh Governorate (محافظة النبطية) is one of the eight governorates of Lebanon.New!!: Jabal Amel and Nabatieh Governorate · See more »Nasif al-NassarNasif ibn al-Nassar al-Wa'ili (died 24 September 1781) was the most powerful sheikh of the rural Shia Muslim (Matawilah) tribes of Jabal Amil (modern-day South Lebanon) in the mid-18th century.New!!: Jabal Amel and Nasif al-Nassar · See more »Operation Change of Direction 11The Operation Change of Direction 11 was the final offensive operation by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the 2006 Lebanon War that began on August 11, 2006, and ended three days later when the ceasefire came into effect.New!!: Jabal Amel and Operation Change of Direction 11 · See more »Popular GuardThe Popular Guard – PG or Popular Guards (Arabic: الحرس الشعبي | Al-Harass al-Sha'abiy), Garde Populaire (GP) in French was the military wing of the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP), which fought in the 1975-77 phase of the Lebanese Civil War and subsequent conflicts.New!!: Jabal Amel and Popular Guard · See more »Qays–Yaman rivalryThe Qays–Yaman rivalry refers to the historical rivalry and blood feud between the factions of the Qays (who were Adnanites or northern Arabians) and Yaman (who were Qahtanites or southern Arabians) in the Arab world.New!!: Jabal Amel and Qays–Yaman rivalry · See more »Qays–Yaman war (793–796)Between 792–793 and 796 a Qays-Yaman war (also referred to as the War of the WatermelonLevy-Rubin and Kedar 2001, p. 65.Linder 2007, p. 22.) took place in Palestine and Transjordan between the northern Arab tribal federation of Mudhar, also called Nizar or Qays, and the southern tribal confederation of Yaman and the latter's Abbasid allies.New!!: Jabal Amel and Qays–Yaman war (793–796) · See more »Ragheb HarbRagheb Harb (راغب حرب) was a Lebanese resistance leader and Muslim cleric.New!!: Jabal Amel and Ragheb Harb · See more »Religion in IranAccording to the CIA World Factbook, around 90–95%.New!!: Jabal Amel and Religion in Iran · See more »Rima FakihRima Fakih (ريما فقيه) (born September 22, 1985) is a Lebanese-American actress, model, professional wrestler and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 2010.New!!: Jabal Amel and Rima Fakih · See more »Sadr (name)Sadr (as-Sadr or al-Sadr; الصدر) is a family name originating in Lebanon and a branch of Musawi family tracing to Musa Ibn Jaafar the seventh Shia Imam.New!!: Jabal Amel and Sadr (name) · See more »Sadr al-Din bin SalehGrand Ayatollah Sadr al-Din bin Saleh (Heart of the religion) of Qom, Iran was a Twelver Shi'a religious scholar.New!!: Jabal Amel and Sadr al-Din bin Saleh · See more »Safad SanjakSafad Sanjak (Safed Sancağı), also referred as Early Ottoman Galilee was a sanjak (district) of Damascus Eyalet (Ottoman province of Sidon) during 16th and early 17th centuries, later becoming part of the Sidon Eyalet.New!!: Jabal Amel and Safad Sanjak · See more »Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia IslamThe Safavid conversion of Iran from Sunni Islam to Shia Islam took place roughly over the 16th through 18th cen… truncated (6,751 more characters in archive)