Haram (site) is normally seen as being holy in its own right. Haram (site) The Arabic term ḥaram () has a meaning of "sanctuary" or "holy shrine" in the Islamic faith or Arabic language. The Arabic language has two separate words, "ḥaram" () and "ḥarām" (, 'forbidden' or 'sacred'), both derived from the same triliteral Semitic root "Ḥ-R-M". Both of these words can mean "forbidden" and/or "sacred" in a general way, but each has also developed some specialized meanings. A third related word derived from the same root, that is "ḥarīm" (), most directly corresponds to English "harem". This article covers the
Al-Haram, Jaffa Al-Haram, Jaffa Al-Haram ("El Haram ʿAly Ibn ʿAleim", also "Sayyiduna Ali" or "Sidna Ali" "sanctuary of ʿAli [Ibn ʿAleim]"), was a Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict, in Mandatory Palestine. It was located 16 km north of Jaffa, adjacent to the ruins of the medieval fortress of Arsuf, and its extent was estimated to range between 9,653 and 11,698 dunams of which 5,150 were accounted for in the cadastral registrations. It was depopulated during the 1948 war. The medieval fortress of Arsuf was captured from the kingdom of Jerusalem by Baibars in 1265, after 40 days of siege. Its