In 2012, Jinsafut and Al-Funduq merged under one local council.[1]
Location
Al-Funduq is located 16 kilometers (9.9 mi) east of Qalqiliya. It is bordered by Immatain to the east, Deir Istiya to the south, Wadi Qana (in Salfit Governorate) to the west and Hajja to the north.[1]
History
Byzantine period
Ceramics from the Byzantine era were found here,[5] and it has been suggested that this place was Fondeka, once inhabited by Samaritans.[6][7]
Crusader period
During the Crusader period Funduq was inhabited by Muslims, according to the historian Diya al-Din al-Maqdisi. A Hanbali scholar named Ahmad ibn Abd al-Daim al-Maqaddasi al-Hanbali was born in the village in 575 AH/1180 CE. He died there in 668 AH/March 1270 CE.[8][9] Followers of the Hanbali scholar Ibn Qudamah (1146/47-1223) also lived in the village.[10] A Muslim sheikh named Abd Allah was another resident.[11][12]
Ottoman period
The place appeared in 1596 Ottomantax registers as Funduq. It was in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b of the Liwa of Nablus and had a population of 86 households, all Muslim, who paid a fixed tax-rate of 33.3% on wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, goats, beehives, and a press for olives or grapes, in addition to occasional revenue - a total of 10,500 akçe.[13]
In 1838 Robinson described el-Funduk as a village in Beni Sa'ab district, west of Nablus.[15]
In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Bani Sa'b.[16]
In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described the village as "a small poor village by the main road, with wells to the north and two sacred places; it stands on high ground," and located in the Beni Sab district.[7]
In the 1945 census El Funduq had a population was 100 Muslims,[19] with 1,619 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.[20] Of this, 43 dunams were for plantations or irrigated land, 1,026 for cereals,[21] while 14 dunams were built-up (urban) land.[22]
^Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18
^Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 59Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
^Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 106
^Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 156
^Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 26
^Grossman, D. (1986). "Oscillations in the Rural Settlement of Samaria and Judaea in the Ottoman Period". in Shomron studies. Dar, S., Safrai, S., (eds). Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House. p. 353
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Avi-Yonah, M. (1976). Gazetteer of Roman Palestine. QEDEM 5. Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and CARTA. p. 89. (Avi Yonah, 1976, p. 89)
Dorsey, David A. (1987). "Shechem and the Road Network of Central Samaria". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (268): 57–70. doi:10.2307/1356994. JSTOR1356994. S2CID163292710. ("a ruin with Iron II pottery"; citing a 1972 Hebrew source.)