Az-Zawiya

az-Zawiya
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	الزاويه
• Also spelled	az-Zawia (official) al-Zawiya (unofficial)
az-Zawiya behind, while Rafat is in front
az-Zawiya Location of az-Zawiya within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°05′45″N 35°02′24″E / 32.09583°N 35.04000°E / 32.09583; 35.04000Coordinates: 32°05′45″N 35°02′24″E / 32.09583°N 35.04000°E / 32.09583; 35.04000
Palestine grid	153/166
Governorate	Salfit
Government
• Type	Municipality (from 1996)
• Head of Municipality	Taleb Raddad
Area
• Jurisdiction	2,700 dunams (2.7 km2 or 1.0 sq mi)
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	4,754
Name meaning	"Corner, hermitage"

Az-Zawiya (Arabic: الزاويه‎‎) is a Palestinian town in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, located 15 kilometers west of Salfit and 24 kilometers south of Qalqilya. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, az-Zawiya had a population of 4,754 in 2007. The town's population is made up of primarily three families: Shuqeir (45%), Muqadi (30%) and Raddad (20%), while the remaining 5% consists of Palestinian refugee families such as Shamlawi, Rabi and Yusif.

Sherds from IA II, Roman and Byzantine eras have been found.

Zawiya appeared in the 1596 Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of 4 households, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, fruit trees, occasional revenues, goats and beehives. French explorer Victor Guérin visited the village in 1870, and described it as having about 200 inhabitants and a small mosque. In the 1882 Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine, the village was described a being of moderate size, "probably an ancient place, having rock-cut tombs to the south."

In a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Zawiya (called: Zawiyeh) had a population of 396, 394 Muslims and 2 Christians, both Orthodox, while in the 1931 census it had 122 occupied houses and a population of 513, all Muslim.