Editing Tulkarm (section)

===Ayyubid and Mamluk periods===
During the [[Ayyubid dynasty|Ayyubid]] era, after the Muslim reconquest of Palestine under Sultan [[Saladin]] in 1187, the first families to settle in Tulkarm were from the [[Kurdish people|Kurdish]] clan of Zaydan.<ref name="JQ">{{cite journal|last=al-Salim |first=Farid |url=http://www.jerusalemquarterly.org/images/ArticlesPdf/47-%20Landed%20Proerty.pdf |title=Landed Property and Elite Conflict in Ottoman Tulkarm |journal=Jerusalem Quarterly |volume=47 |date=Autumn 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120126131242/http://www.jerusalemquarterly.org/images/ArticlesPdf/47-%20Landed%20Proerty.pdf |archive-date=2012-01-26 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> A military group, the Zaydan were dispatched to the Wadi al-Sha'ir area, which includes Tulkarm, by Saladin to buttress the defense of the western approaches of Muslim-held Palestine from the Crusaders who dominated the coastal area.<ref name="JQ"/>

The Zaydan  politically dominated Tulkarm and the vicinity until the early 17th century. Around 1230, during the late Ayyubid period, a group of [[Arabs]] from southern Palestine immigrated to Tulkarm. They had originally migrated to Palestine from [[Arabia]] many generations prior and had become semi-nomadic farmers and grazers.<ref name="JQ"/> Among the Arab families were the Fuqaha clan, who were considered ''[[ashraf]]'' (related to the [[Islam]]ic prophet [[Muhammad]]) and served as the ''[[ulama]]'' (religious scholars) of the village.<ref name="JQ"/>

During the Ayyubid, and later the [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk]] era (1260&ndash;1517), the majority of Tulkarm's lands were made part of a ''[[waqf]]'' (religious trust) to support the [[:commons:category:Al-Farisiyya Madrasa|al-Farisiyya Madrasa]], an [[Islam]]ic religious school in [[Jerusalem]], located north of the [[Temple Mount|Masjid Al-Aqsa]] compound. Two-thirds of the village's farmlands were confirmed as part of this trust in 1354 by the deputy-governor of Damascus, Faris al-Din al-Baki. During Mamluk rule another wave of Arab immigrants arrived in Tulkarm from [[North Africa]] and nearby [[Nablus]]. They largely engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry, supplying hides to leather merchants in the coastal villages, retaken from the Crusaders in the second half of the 13th century.<ref name="JQ"/>