Muhajbib

Muhajbib محيبيب
Village
Muhajbib Location within Lebanon
Coordinates: 33°09′17″N 35°30′20″E
Grid position	197/284 PAL
Country	Lebanon
Governorate	Nabatieh Governorate
District	Marjeyoun District
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code	+961

Muhajbib, Mhaibib, (Arabic: محيبيب) is a small village in the Marjeyoun District in southern Lebanon.

Name

E. H. Palmer wrote that the name Neby Muheibîb meant "the prophet Muheibîb", "beloved".

History

In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Neby Muheibib as: "a small village round the stone Neby, containing about seventy Moslems, situated on top of ridge, with olives and arable land; there are two cisterns in the village."

Bibliography

• Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
• Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.

External links

• Survey of Western Palestine, Map 4: IAA, Wikimedia commons