Al-Mazar, Jenin
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| Arabic | المزار |
| Name meaning | "shrine", "a place one visits" |
| Subdistrict | Jenin |
| Coordinates | 32°31′28″N 35°21′33″E / 32.52444°N 35.35917°ECoordinates: 32°31′28″N 35°21′33″E / 32.52444°N 35.35917°E |
| Palestine grid | 184/214 |
| Population | 270 (1945) |
| Area | 14,501 dunams |
| Date of depopulation | 30 May 1948 |
| Cause(s) of depopulation | Military assault by Yishuv forces |
| Current localities | Perazon, Meytav, and Gan Nir |
Al-Mazar (Arabic: المزار) was a Palestinian Arab village in the District of Jenin. Situated on Mount Gilboa, its history stretched back to the period of Mamluk rule over Palestine (13th century). An agricultural village, it was depopulated during the 1948 Palestine war, and incorporated into the newly established state of Israel. The Israeli localities of Perazon, Meytav, and Gan Nir were established on the village's former lands.
The village was located on the flat, circular peak of the mountain known in biblical scripture as Mount Gilboa, and locally as Mount al-Mazar or Djebel Foukou'ah ("Mount of Mushrooms"), with steep slopes on all sides excepting the southeast. It was joined to the neighbouring village of Nuris by a dirt path.
The village may have been named al-Mazar (Arabic for "shrine", "a place one visits") because it was a burial place of many of those who fell in the Battle of Ain Jalut between the Mamluks and the Mongols in 1260. The villagers traced their origins to the al-Sadiyyun nomads, who in turn were descended from Shaykh Sad al-Din al-Shaybani (died 1224), a prominent Sufi mystic from the Jaba village on the Golan.
During the period of Ottoman rule over Palestine, al-Mazar was captured and burned by Napoleon's troops in April 1799 during the Syrian leg of his military campaign in Egypt.Pierre Jacotin named the village Nazer on his map from that campaign.
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