Muhajbib

Village in Nabatieh Governorate

Muhajbib محيبيب
Village
33°09′17″N 35°30′20″E / 33.15472°N 35.50556°E / 33.15472; 35.50556
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".^[1]

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."^[2]

References

^ Palmer, 1881, p. 92
^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 202

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.