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      On the typology and the worship status of sacred trees with a special reference to the Middle East

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          This article contains the reasons for the establishment of sacred trees in Israel based on a field study. It includes 97 interviews with Muslim and Druze informants. While Muslims (Arabs and Bedouins) consider sacred trees especially as an abode of righteous figures' (Wellis') souls or as having a connection to their graves, the Druze relate sacred trees especially to the events or deeds in the lives of prophets and religious leaders. A literary review shows the existence of 24 known reasons for the establishment of sacred trees worldwide, 11 of which are known in Israel one of these is reported here for the first time. We found different trends in monotheistic and polytheistic religions concerning their current worship of sacred trees.

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                Journal
                J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
                Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
                BioMed Central (London )
                1746-4269
                2006
                15 May 2006
                : 2
                : 26
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Institute of Evolution, Haifa University, Haifa 31905, Israel
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                1746-4269-2-26
                10.1186/1746-4269-2-26
                1500805
                16700917
                0911cd93-af1e-4121-bcda-2911104ebc0a
                Copyright © 2006 Dafni; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

                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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                : 12 February 2006
                : 15 May 2006
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