Fardisya
فرديسيا | |
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| Etymology: Paradise[1] | |
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  Fardisya Location within Mandatory Palestine | |
| Coordinates: 32°16′41″N 35°00′47″E / 32.27806°N 35.01306°E | |
| Palestine grid | 151/187 |
| Geopolitical entity | Mandatory Palestine |
| Subdistrict | Tulkarm |
| Date of depopulation | April 1, 1948 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,092 dunams (1.092 km2 or 270 acres) |
| Population (1945) | |
| • Total | 20[2][3] |
| Current Localities | Sha'ar Efraim[4] |
Fardisya was a Palestinian Arab hamlet in the Tulkarm Subdistrict, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) south of Tulkarm.
It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing, and was mostly destroyed with the exception of a single deserted house.
The village was home to the Desuqi family, descendants of Ibrahim al-Desuqi, an Egyptian Sufi leader who lived in Desouk, Egypt during the 13th century and founded the Desuqiyya order. His descendants migrated to Palestine in 1780, and two of them settled at Fardisya. The Desuqi family are their descendants.[5]
Today the area where the village stood been subsumed into the Arab-Israeli town of Tayibe. The Desuqi family today lives in Taybeh.[5]
- ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 182
- ^ Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 20
- ^ a b Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 74
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
Khalidi552was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Tal, Uri (2023). Muslim Shrines in Eretz Israel: History, Religion, Traditions, Folklore. Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi. pp. 121–122. ISBN 978-965-217-452-9.