Editing Magdala (section)

=== Mamluk period ===
Under the rule of the [[Mamluks]] in the 13th century, sources indicate that the church was used as a stable.<ref name=Schaebergp58 /> In 1283, [[Burchard of Mount Sion]] records having entered the house of Mary Magdalene in the village, and about ten years later, [[Ricoldus of Montecroce]] noted his joy at having found the church and house still standing.<ref name=Pringlep28/>

{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = al-Majdal
| native_name             = <big>المجدل</big>
| native_name_lang        = ar
| other_name              = Majdal, Magdala
| settlement_type         = 
<!-- images, nickname, motto -->
| image_skyline           = File:Al-Majdal photographed by Felix Bonfils.jpg
| imagesize               = 250
| image_caption           = al-Majdal, sea of Galilee by [[Félix Bonfils|Bonfils]]. Shrine of Muhammad al-'Ajami in the foreground. 
<!-- maps and coordinates -->
| pushpin_map             = Mandatory Palestine | pushpin_map_caption     = Location within [[Mandatory Palestine]] | image_map               = {{Historical map series|default=2|date1=1870s|date2=1940s|date3=modern|date4=1940s with modern overlay|width=225|name=al-Majdal, Tiberias}} | map_caption             = A series of historical maps of the area around Al-Majdal, Tiberias (click the buttons)
| pushpin_mapsize         = 200
| coordinates             = 
| grid_name               = [[Palestine grid|Palestine&nbsp;grid]]
| grid_position           = 198/247
<!-- location -->
| subdivision_type        = [[Geopolitical entity]]
| subdivision_name        = [[Mandatory Palestine]]
| subdivision_type1       = [[Districts of Mandatory Palestine|Subdistrict]]
| subdivision_name1       = [[Tiberias Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine|Tiberias]]
<!-- established -->
| established_title1      = Date of depopulation
| established_date1       = 22 April 1948<ref name=Morrispxvii>Morris, 2004, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PR17  xvii]. Village No. 92. Also gives causes of depopulation.</ref>
| established_title2      = Repopulated dates
<!-- area -->
| unit_pref               = dunam
| area_total_dunam        = 103
| area_footnotes          = <ref name=WK1992>Khalidi, 1992, p. 530.</ref><ref name=Hadawi72/>
<!-- population -->
| population_as_of        = 1945
| population_total        = 360<ref name=1945p12>Department of Statistics, 1945, p. [http://cs.anu.edu.au/~bdm/yabber/census/VSpages/VS1945_p12.jpg  12]</ref><ref name=Hadawi72>Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. ''Village Statistics, April, 1945.'' Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p.  [http://www.palestineremembered.com/download/VillageStatistics/Table%20I/Tiberias/Page-072.jpg 72]</ref>
<!-- blank fields (section 1) -->
| blank_name_sec1         = Cause(s) of depopulation
| blank_info_sec1         = Military assault by [[Yishuv]] forces
| blank1_name_sec1        = Secondary cause
| blank1_info_sec1        = Influence of nearby town's fall
| blank3_name_sec1        = Current Localities
| blank3_info_sec1        = [[Migdal, Israel]]
}}
[[File:81.El-Mejdel (Magdala), la de Tiberaide.jpg|thumb|Al-Majdal, ca 1851, by  [[Charles William Meredith van de Velde|van de Velde]]]]
[[File:Migdal 2 sea of galilee 1903.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A view of Al-Majdal in 1903 when looking toward the southwest]]

'''Al-Majdal''' ({{langx|ar|المجدل}}, "tower", also [[transliteration|transliterated]] Majdal, Majdil and Mejdel) was a [[Palestinian people|Palestinian Arab]] village, located on the western shore of the [[Sea of Galilee]] ({{convert|200|m|ft|sp=us|disp=or}} below sea level; {{coord|32|49|28|N|35|31|00|E|type:city_region:PS|display=inline}}), {{convert|3|mi|km|0|abbr=in|order=flip}} north of [[Tiberias]] and south of [[Khan Minyeh]].<ref name="WK1992" /><ref name="PR">{{Cite web|title=al-Majdal|publisher=Palestine Remembered|access-date=2009-08-08|url=http://www.palestineremembered.com/Tiberias/al-Majdal/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220000007/http://www.palestineremembered.com/Tiberias/al-Majdal/index.html|archive-date=20 February 2010}}</ref><ref name="Hastingsp97" /><ref name="Pringlep28"/> destroyed by the [[Roman Empire|Romans]] during the [[First Jewish–Roman War|First Jewish-Roman War]].<ref name="hadashot2009"/>

[[Christianity|Christian]] [[pilgrim]]s wrote of visiting the house and [[church (building)|church]] of Mary Magdalene from the 6th century onward, but little is known about the village in the [[Mamluk]] and early [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] period, indicating it was likely small or uninhabited.<ref name=Schaebergp56/><ref name=Petersenp210/> In the 19th century, Western travellers generally describing it as a very small and poor [[Islam|Muslim]] village.<ref name=Petersenp210/>