Jerusalem Old City - Muslim Quarter Souk

A souk (سوق, also sook, souq, or suq) is a commercial quarter in an Arab city. The term is often used to designate the market in any Arabized city. It may also refer to the weekly market in some smaller towns where neutrality from tribal conflicts would be declared to permit the exchange of surplus goods.

Though each neighbourhood within the city would have a local souk selling food and other essentials, the main souk was one of the central structures of a large city. A central marketplace, it was where textiles, jewellery, spices, wooden sculptures and other valuable goods as well as the money changers were arranged in a line. A quadrilateral of stone-vaulted streets parallel to or crossing each other or a tight mass of buildings too packed together for roads to intersect them. The workshops were further away from this centre of exchange as were the main residential quarters -- those the wealthier merchants or scholars might live within the centre of the city.

In a souk, the final price of an item is reached by bargaining with the shopkeeper. Traders of a given commodity would all sell in the same souk, thus ensuring a competitive market. In some African countries the souk was a place where people could come and talk, or sit down to tell stories.

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[grail68]

Hey what do you know, they still have a Muslim quarter! Netanyahu's "final solution" hasn't wiped it out just yet. Israel's a great country, but they have a bad habit of electing radical right-wing racist governments who are hell-bent on ethnic cleansing. Long live a free and independent Israel, and long live a free and independent Palestine! Send the settlers back to Tel Aviv!

[halo3pownstar6199999]

I remeber this :). I use to go with my mom. This almost made me cry. Long live Palestine.

[LearnedHand2008]

Ahmed is mistaken: The Jewish quarter existed long before Israel captured the city in 1967. I had many synagogues which were destroyed by the Jordanian army in 1948. However, Israel did demolish the Mughrabi quarter in order to built the Western Wall plaza, which is now part of the Jewish quarter.

Jews have been a majority in Jerusalem since 1900; its propaganda to say that it has always been an "Arab City", though the Old City did have an Arab majority.

[Ahmedhafez]

its called Muslim Quarter, and NOT Arab quarter, since that would mean that the other thre quarters or th city arnt arab, which is a mistak, only one is Armenian, the rest are the Muslim, the christian quarter, and the last was called Magharba quarter, untill the Israelis demolished large parts of it, and then called it the Jewish Quarter..

[paLiszfineSt]

wahhhhhhhhh galbi