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====Muslim "relative majority"====
Henry Light, who visited Jerusalem in 1814, reported that Muslims comprised the largest portion of the 12,000 -person population, but that Jews made the greatest single sect.<ref name="LIGHT1818">{{cite book|last=Light|first=Henry|title=Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Libanon and Cyprus, in the year 1814|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y-tjlA2v7vcC&pg=PA177|year=1818|publisher=Rodwell and Martin|page=178|quote=The population is said to be twelve thousand, of which the largest proportion is Mussulmen: the greatest of one sect are Jews: the rest are composed of Christians of the East, belonging either to the Armenian, Greek, Latin, or Coptish sects.}}</ref> In 1818, Robert Richardson, family doctor to the [[Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore|Earl of Belmore]], estimated the number of Jews to be 10,000, twice the number of Muslims.<ref name="Richardson1822">{{cite book|last=Richardson|first=Robert|title=Travels Along the Mediterranean and Parts Adjacent: In Company with the Earl of Belmore, During the Years 1816-17-18: Extending as Far as the Second Cataract of the Nile, Jerusalem, Damascus, Balbec, &c. ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HEMGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA256|year=1822|publisher=T. Cadell|pages=256–}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=John Griffith Mansford (M.R.C.S.)|title=A Scripture Gazetteer; or, geographical and historical dictionary of places and people, mentioned in the Bible|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V5NhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA244|year=1829|page=244}}</ref>
[[File:Ymca boys jeru.jpg|thumb|Arab boys at Jerusalem [[YMCA]], 1938]]
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