The ethnobotany of Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Israel

This article surveys the ethnobotany of Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf. in the Middle East from various aspects: historical, religious, philological, literary, linguistic, as well as pharmacological, among Muslims, Jews, and Christians. It is suggested that this is the only tree species considered...

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Autores principales: Dafni, Amots, Levy, Shay, Lev, Efraim
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1277088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16270941
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-1-8
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description This article surveys the ethnobotany of Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf. in the Middle East from various aspects: historical, religious, philological, literary, linguistic, as well as pharmacological, among Muslims, Jews, and Christians. It is suggested that this is the only tree species considered "holy" by Muslims (all the individuals of the species are sanctified by religion) in addition to its status as "sacred tree " (particular trees which are venerated due to historical or magical events related to them, regardless of their botanical identity) in the Middle East. It has also a special status as "blessed tree" among the Druze.
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spelling pubmed-12770882005-11-05 The ethnobotany of Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Israel Dafni, Amots Levy, Shay Lev, Efraim J Ethnobiol Ethnomed Research This article surveys the ethnobotany of Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf. in the Middle East from various aspects: historical, religious, philological, literary, linguistic, as well as pharmacological, among Muslims, Jews, and Christians. It is suggested that this is the only tree species considered "holy" by Muslims (all the individuals of the species are sanctified by religion) in addition to its status as "sacred tree " (particular trees which are venerated due to historical or magical events related to them, regardless of their botanical identity) in the Middle East. It has also a special status as "blessed tree" among the Druze. BioMed Central 2005-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC1277088/ /pubmed/16270941 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-1-8 Text en Copyright © 2005 Dafni et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dafni, Amots
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The ethnobotany of Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Israel
title The ethnobotany of Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Israel
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title_fullStr The ethnobotany of Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Israel
title_full_unstemmed The ethnobotany of Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Israel
title_short The ethnobotany of Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Israel
title_sort ethnobotany of christ's thorn jujube (ziziphus spina-christi) in israel
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1277088/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-1-8
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