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{{Short description|Arab town in northern Israel}}
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{{Infobox Israel village
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| image = Kfarnin (cropped).jpg
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| hebname = {{Script/Hebrew|ניין}}
| arname = نين
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| country     = Israel
| district = north
| council = [[Bustan al-Marj Regional Council|Bustan al-Marj]]
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| population = {{Israel populations|Nein}}
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'''Nein''' ({{langx|ar|نين}}, ''Nayin'', lit. ''Charming'', {{langx|he|ניין}}) — also '''Nain''' or '''Naim''' in English — is an [[Arab citizens of Israel|Arab]] village in northern [[Israel]]. Located in the [[Lower Galilee]], {{convert|14|km|mi|sp=us}} south of [[Nazareth]], Nein covers a land area of approximately {{convert|1000|dunam|acre}} and falls under the jurisdiction of [[Bustan al-Marj Regional Council]], whose headquarters it hosts.<ref>[http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/il-bumar.html Bustan El-Marj (Israel)] Dov Gutterman, Flags of the World.</ref> Its total land area consisted of 3,737 dunums prior to 1962.<ref>[http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Na_in_1456/index.html Welcome To Na'in]</ref> According to the [[Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics]], in {{Israel populations|Year}} it had a population of {{Israel populations|Nein}}.{{Israel populations|reference}}

==Location==
Nein lies a short distance from [[Mount Tabor]].<ref name=Cartap26>Carta, 1999, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LCdqLoGsHpMC&dq=nein+tabor&pg=PA26 p. 26].</ref> A hill known in Arabic as [[Tell (archaeology)|Tell]] el-Ajul lay on the path that ran between Nein and nearby [[Indur]], an Arab village destroyed in the [[1948 Arab-Israeli war]].<ref name=Veldep142>van de Velde, 1858, [https://archive.org/details/memoirtoaccompa00veldgoog/page/n151 <!-- quote=nein tabor. --> p. 142].</ref> Biblical archaeologist [[Edward Robinson (scholar)|Edward Robinson]] describes Nein as lying on the northern slope of a hill called "the little Hermon", and it is described in biblical guidebooks as lying at the foot of the [[Givat HaMoreh|Hill of Moreh]].<ref name=Robinson182>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/n199/mode/1up 182]</ref>

==History==
===Antiquity===
Rock-sunk tombs have been found here, probably of [[Christians|Christian]] origin.<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/125/mode/1up 125]</ref>

Nein is mentioned in the writing of [[Eusebius]] (c. 263–339) and [[Jerome]] (c. 347–420) as being situated near Endor ([[Indur]]).<ref name=Robinsonp226/> Its identity as a biblical site was recognized by the [[Crusades|Crusaders]], who built a church there to commemorate the site of the miracle, a church rebuilt by the Franciscans.<ref name=Cartap26/><ref name=Robinsonp226/><ref name=Pringle115>Pringle, 1998, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2Y0tA0xLzwEC&pg=PA115 115]</ref>

In 1101,  during the [[Crusader states|Crusader]] era, [[Tancred, Prince of Galilee]] granted   Nein together with several other villages to the [[abbey of Mount Tabor]].<ref>Röhricht, 1893,  RRH,  pp. [https://archive.org/stream/regestaregnihie00rhgoog#page/n13/mode/1up  5]-6, No. 36; cited in Pringle, 1998, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2Y0tA0xLzwEC&pg=PA115 115]</ref>  In 1153, it belonged to the [[Knights Hospitaller|Hospitallers]].<ref>Röhricht, 1904,  RRH Ad,  pp. [https://archive.org/stream/regestaregnihie00rhgoog#page/n552/mode/1up  18]-19, No. 280b; cited in Pringle, 1998, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2Y0tA0xLzwEC&pg=PA115 115]</ref>  By 1263, the area was ruled by [[Baybars]].<ref name=Pringle115/>

===Ottoman era===
Nein, like the rest of Israel, was incorporated into the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1517, and in the [[daftar|census]] of 1596, the village was located  in the ''[[nahiya]]'' of Safa in the ''[[Liwa (Arabic)|liwa]]'' of [[Lajjun]]. It had a population of 119 households, all [[Muslim]]. They paid a fixed  tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to winter pastures and occasional revenues;  the taxes totalled 80,000  [[akçe]].<ref>Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 157</ref>

In 1838 Robinson and Smith  noted that Nein had decreased in size over the ages, and was at  time a small [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]], inhabited by  a few families.<ref name=Robinson182/><ref name=Robinsonp226/><ref>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/n235/mode/1up 118]</ref>  In 1875 [[Victor Guérin]]  saw here a ruined building, measuring 18 times 12 paces.<ref>Guérin, 1880, pp. [https://archive.org/stream/descriptiongogr01unkngoog#page/n128/mode/1up 115]-117</ref>

In  the [[Palestine Exploration Fund]]'s ''Survey of Western Palestine'' (1882),  Nein was described as a small village made of stone and [[adobe]], with a small mosque, named [[Maqam (shrine)|Mukam]] Sidna Aisa, to the north.<ref>Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. [https://archive.org/stream/surveyofwesternp02conduoft#page/86/mode/1up 86]</ref>

===British Mandate era===
In the  [[1922 census of Palestine]] conducted by the [[Mandatory Palestine|British authorities]], Nain had a population of 157, all Muslims,<ref name="Census1922">Barron, 1923, Table XI, Sub-district of Nazareth, p. [https://archive.org/stream/PalestineCensus1922/Palestine%20Census%20%281922%29#page/n40/mode/1up  38]</ref> increasing in the [[1931 census of Palestine|1931 census]] to 189, still all Muslim, in a total of 34  houses.<ref>Mills, 1932, p. [https://archive.org/details/CensusOfPalestine1931.PopulationOfVillagesTownsAndAdministrativeAreas  75]</ref>

In  the [[Village Statistics, 1945|1945 statistics]]  the population was 270, all Muslims,<ref name=1945p8>Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p08.jpg   8]</ref>  while the total land area was {{convert|4687|dunam|acre}}, according to an official land and population survey.<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in  Hadawi,  1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Nazareth/Page-062.jpg 62]</ref> Of this, {{convert|87|dunam|acre}} were for plantations and irrigable land, 3,602  for cereals,<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi,  1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20II/Nazareth/Page-110.jpg 110]</ref> while 31 dunams were classified as built-up areas.<ref>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20III/Nazareth/Page-160.jpg 160]</ref>

==New Testament associations==
{{main article|Raising of the son of the widow of Nain}}
[[File:Aufweckung-Jüngling-Nain-15.jpg|200px|thumb|right|The raising of the young man of Nain, by [[Lucas Cranach the Younger|Lucas Cranach]], in 1569.]]
Edward Robinson and [[Eli Smith]], who visited [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]] in the mid-19th century, identified Nein as, "the Nain of the [[New Testament]]" ({{Langx|el|Ναΐν}}) where, according to [[Luke 7|Luke]] {{bibleverse-nb|Luke|7:11–17|KJV}}, [[Jesus]] raised a young man from death and reunited him with his mother.<ref name=Robinsonp226>Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol. 3, p. [https://archive.org/stream/biblicalresearch03robiuoft#page/n243/mode/1up  226].</ref> According to Luke's account, this young man was the only son of an unnamed [[widow]]. When [[Jesus]] saw the dead son being carried out and the mourning widow, he felt [[compassion]] for her. He walked towards the [[bier]] or stretcher, touched it, stopped the funeral procession and told the man: "Young man, I say to you, arise!" The man came alive, sat up, and began to speak. The people who were standing around were all struck by the event, seen as a sign that 'a great prophet' had arisen among them, and the report of it spread widely across [[Judea]] and the surrounding region. Nain is not mentioned in the other canonical [[gospels]].

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==External links==
*[http://www.palestineremembered.com/GeoPoints/Na_in_1456/index.html Welcome To Na'in]
*Survey of Western Palestine, Map 9: [http://www.iaa-archives.org.il/zoom/zoom.aspx?folder_id=93&type_id=6&id=8371  IAA], [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Survey_of_Western_Palestine_1880.09.jpg Wikimedia commons]
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