Rimat al-Luhuf
Rimat al-Luhuf, also known as Rimat al-Fukhour is a village in southern Syria, administratively part of the Suwayda Governorate. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Rimat al-Luhuf had a population of 1,925 in the 2004 census. Its inhabitants are predominantly Druze, with a Sunni Muslim Bedouin minority. Most of the Bedouins reside in the northern part of the village, an area known as Al-Manshiyah.
History
In 1596 the village appeared in the Ottoman tax registers named Rimat al-Halahil, part of the nahiya of Bani Nasiyya in the Hauran Sanjak. It had a Muslim population consisting of 43 households and 17 bachelors, and a Christian population consisting of 14 households and 7 bachelors; a total of 81 taxable units. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues" ; a total of 9,400 akçe. 2/3 of the revenue went to a waqf.In 1838, Eli Smith noted that inhabitants of Rimet el-Luhf were predominantly Druse and Catholic Christians.