Sinjil

{{Infobox settlement | name = Sinjil | translit_lang1 = Arabic | translit_lang1_type = Arabic | translit_lang1_info = | translit_lang1_type1 = Latin | translit_lang1_info1 = Senjel (official)Sanjil (unofficial) | type = Municipality type C | image_skyline = File:Sinjil4140.JPG | image_caption = | pushpin_map = Palestine | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Sinjil within Palestine | image_map = | map_caption = | coordinates = | grid_name = Palestine grid | grid_position = 175/160 | subdivision_type = State | subdivision_name = | subdivision_type1 = Governorate | subdivision_name1 = Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate | established_title = Founded | established_date = | government_footnotes =

Doubt over the Crusader origin of the name was raised by historian Levy-Rubin. A Samaritan chronicle (ostensibly by Abu l-Fath), written in the 14th century but based on much older sources, twice refers to a location Sinḥil in the 8th or 9th century. The Arab geographer Zakariya al-Qazwini in his Athar al-bilad cited a 10th-century mention of Sinḥil, though this cannot be verified from extant manuscripts. Levy-Rubin proposes that Sinḥil was the original name of Sinjil, and that the Crusaders' association of the place with St Gilles was prompted by the Arab name rather than the reverse.