Wadi al-Taym

Wadi al-Taym (Arabic: وادي التيم, romanized: Wādī al-Taym), also transliterated as Wadi el-Taym, is a wadi (dry river) that forms a large fertile valley in Lebanon, in the districts of Rachaya and Hasbaya on the western slopes of Mount Hermon. It adjoins the Beqaa Valley running north to south towards the Jordan Valley where it meets the northwest corner of Lake Huleh.[1] Watered by the Hasbani river, the low hills of Wadi al-Taym are covered with rows of silver-green olive trees with the population in the area being predominantly Druze and Sunni, with a high number of Christians, mostly Greek Orthodox.[2][3][4] Wadi al-Taym is generally considered the "birthplace of the Druze faith".[5]

  1. ^ Kamal S. Salibi (15 November 2003). A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered. I.B.Tauris. pp. 4–. ISBN 978-1-86064-912-7. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  2. ^ Farhad Daftary (24 April 1992). The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines. Cambridge University Press. pp. 375–. ISBN 978-0-521-42974-0. Retrieved 13 September 2012.
  3. ^ Hourani, Alexandre Salim., Ethnic, Political and Administrative Geography of the Beqaa, Wadi Al-Taym and Aroub in the Greco-Roman Period, Masters Thesis for the American University of Beirut, November 2006.
  4. ^ Yhiya, Ammar., Tarikh Wadi al-Taym (The History of Wadi al-Taym), Yanta, Lebanon, 1985.
  5. ^ Khuri Hitti, Philip (1996). The Origins of the Druze People: With Extracts from Their Sacred Writings. University of California Press. p. 10. ISBN 9781538124185. Lebanon therefore was the distributing center of the Druze people and Wādi - al - Taym was the birthplace of their faith.