Jarrar family

Jarrar (Arabic: جرار) is a large Palestinian family that served as rural landlords and tax-collectors (mutasallims) in the Jenin area during Ottoman rule in Palestine. During this era, they were the most powerful of the rural families in Palestine's central highlands.[1]

Beshara Doumani states the family migrated from Transjordan to Palestine in the 17th century, and became influential by the 19th century. Michael Ehrlich notes that according to one family tradition suggests they arrived during Saladin's era.[2]

  1. ^ Doumani, 1995, p. 31
  2. ^ Ehrlich, Michael (2022-05-31), The Islamization of the Holy Land, 634–1800, Medieval Islamicate World, ARC Humanities Press, pp. 92–93, doi:10.1515/9781802700312-006, ISBN 978-1-80270-031-2, retrieved 2024-09-18