'Abwein

Abwein
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	عبوين
Abwein from the north
Abwein Location of Abwein
Coordinates: 32°1′57″N 35°11′57″E / 32.03250°N 35.19917°E / 32.03250; 35.19917Coordinates: 32°1′57″N 35°11′57″E / 32.03250°N 35.19917°E / 32.03250; 35.19917
Palestine grid	169/160 PAL
Governorate	Ramallah & al-Bireh
Government
• Head of Municipality	Fatima Suhweil
Area
• Jurisdiction	16,205 dunams (16.205 km2 or 6.257 sq mi)
Population (= 2007)
• Jurisdiction	3,119
Name meaning	from a personal name
Website	www.abwain.org

Abwein (Arabic: عبوين ‎) is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate, located about 37 kilometers north of Ramallah in the northern West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Abwein's population was 3,119 in 2007.

Abwein's main agricultural products are olives, figs, grapes, apples, peaches, pears, and vegetables. There are three schools in the town with about 1,200 students and about 200 students are enrolled in various Palestinian universities. Abwein also has three mosques, the largest of which is the Farouk Mosque.

Abwein is located 14.3 km north of Ramallah. It is bordered by Jilijliya and Sinjil to the east, Ammuriya and Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya to the north, Bani Zeid ash Sharqiya to the west, and Atara to the south.

Pottery sherds from Iron Age II, Persian, Hellenistic, Byzantine, and Crusader/Ayyubid era have been found.

Reinhold Röhricht identified Abwein as the Crusader village of Casale Bubil or Casale Bubin.

In the village is an old maqam (holy man's tomb) called ash-Shaykh Ya'qub. According to Moshe Sharon, professor of early Islamic history at Hebrew University, the tomb has been neglected. The tombstone was in secondary use in a terrace. It had an inscription dating to September 1339 in Mamluk naskhi script dedicated to a Hajji Ya'qub, son of Shaikh Dawud ibn Ahmad, who died that year. It also refers to the Mamluk sultan of that time period, al-Nasir Muhammad. Pottery sherds from the Mamluk era and a hoard of 406 silver coins, mostly from the period of Sultan Baibars, have also been found.