Al-Khatuniya and Sheikh Fathi neighborhoods in Mosul an applied study

Abstract

A neighborhood is a place where one settles, or a home where one resides. These are the homes of a tribe or a people. A neighborhood is often used synonymously, including a neighborhood, a district, and a plan. A neighborhood is a section of a city. In its technical sense, a neighborhood is a collective place, the opposite of a traveler. It is the home of settlement and the specific location of a group of people for whom to settle. Throughout its long history, Mosul has been famous for its ancient local civilization, which emerged and developed during the Islamic era. It became the first nucleus for the formation of the ancient city. It is located on the right bank of the Tigris River opposite the ancient city of Nineveh. Mosul occupied a distinguished position during the Ottoman era, expanding its area, increasing its population, and diversifying its architecture, including religious, scientific, service, and residential areas. It now encompasses numerous neighborhoods and residential areas that flourished and developed more than others. Mosul took the form of districts and plans during its emergence and later developed. The district is divided into specialized shops distributed in a circular manner around a central nucleus, which represents the religious and administrative aspects around which the shops were gradually formed and interrupted by different types of external radial streets, including the Sheikh Fathi and Khatuniya neighbourhoods. Khatuniya is one of the old neighbourhoods formed in the city of Mosul, dating back to the end of the Abbasid era, where the neighbourhood was attributed to the Khawatneh clan of Bani Hamdan, who lived in the village of Ain al-Hisan in Sinjar district. Then it migrated to the city of Mosul and settled at Bab al-Jassasin after the Islamic conquest, and from there it was known as the Jassasin neighbourhood, where its people worked in stone, gypsum and lime kilns. In the Ottoman era, it was inhabited by the Khawatneh clan and the Tayy tribe, so it became known as the Khawatneh (and Khatuniya) neighbourhood, where its construction extended to its northeastern part, and it is adjacent to the Sheikh Fathi neighbourhood, which is considered one of the largest and most prominent neighbourhoods of the old city of Mosul, where it was named after Sheikh al-Fath al-Mawsili, and in it there is the shrine and tomb of Sheikh al-Fath bin Saeed. Mosuli.