It used to be the site of an eponymous seven-day-long religious festival that was celebrated annually by Palestinian Muslims, beginning on the Friday before Good Friday in the Orthodox calendar used by the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem. [4] .

Throughout its 10 centuries of existence, the Nabi Musa festival has become a powerful symbol of Palestinian identity and resistance. Marked by local traditions, communal prayers, and nationalist slogans, it reflects the evolving interplay between faith and political activism.

Dec 30, 2015 · The main body of the present shrine, mosque, minaret and some rooms were built during the reign of Al-Dhaher Baybers, the Mamluk Sultan, in 1269 AD and many devout made the pilgrimage from Jerusalem to Nabi Musa. The annual of Nabi Musa festival attracted thousands of believers every year.

Nabi Musa’s longer history as a regional pilgrimage and how that history intersects with the sociopolitical upheavals of Palestine’s modern era. Enter Awad Halabi’s new monograph, Palestinian Rituals of Identity, the first book-length study in English of the Nabi Musa festival through the late Ottoman and Mandate periods (1850–1948).

Nabi Musa (Arabic: نبي موسى‎, meaning the "Prophet Moses"[1], also transliterated Nebi Musa) is the name of a site in the Judean desert that popular Palestinian folklore associates with Moses. It is also the name of a seven-day long religious festival that was celebrated annually by Palestinian...

Nabi Musa Riots Violent clashes between Palestinians and Jews that broke out in the Old City of Jerusalem between Sunday, April 4, and Wednesday, April 7, 1920. The annual, week-long Nabi Musa festival gathered Muslim pilgrims in Jerusalem on the Friday before Good Friday to journey to the Nabi Musa maqam , or shrine, near Jericho.

In Nabi Musa, an annual festival took place during the same period as Christian Easter since the Saladin era. Periglims leaving Jerusalem for Nabi Musa in 1920. People parade from Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to Nabi Musa, and then they walk back to Jerusalem after five days of the event in Nabi Musa.

official ceremony held largely in Jerusalem. This new fes-tival included an expanded range of participants and rites. figures. These groups restructured the traditional symbols. of the festival to promote their distinctive understanding of modernity, identity, politics, and Islam.

Palestinian national identity arose during the period of British rule (1917-1948). The Nabi Musa (Prophet Moses) festival - mawsim al-Nabi Musa - provides us with an example of how a religious ritual celebrated within a colonial context shaped nationalist ideas.

Awad Halabi's monograph breaks new ground in uncovering the societal changes contained within Palestine's most popular Muslim festival. Focused mainly on the Mandate period, the book charts the festival's reinvention in the early twentieth century as a major vehicle for Palestinian social and political protest.